''Neanthes'' is a genus of
polychaetes belonging to the family
Nereididae.
The genus has almost
cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats. Such a taxon, usually a species, is said to exhibit cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitism. The ext ...
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Species
Species in this genus include:
* ''
Neanthes abyssorum''
(Hartman, 1967)
* ''
Neanthes acuminata''
(Ehlers, 1868)
* ''
Neanthes arenaceodentata
''Neanthes arenaceodentata'' is a species of marine polychaete worm in the family Nereididae. It occurs in shallow waters in the tropical Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It has been used in the laboratory in testing the toxicity of marine sediments. ...
''
(Moore, 1903)
* ''
Neanthes fucata''
(Savigny, 1822)
* ''
Neanthes goodayi''
(Drennan, Wiklund, Rabone, Georgieva, Dahlgren & Glover, 2021)
References
Phyllodocida
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