Species under Polydora
n= 33
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Polydora aggregata
Blake, 1969
Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
Polydora anophthalma
Rioja, 1963
Eastern Pacific
Polydora barbilla
Blake, 1981
Eastern Pacific
Polydora cardalia
Berkeley, 1927
Northern Pacific
Polydora cavitensis
Pillai, 1965
Western Central Pacific
Polydora ciliata
(Johnston, 1838)
Eastern Pacific, Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Western Indian Ocean
Polydora cirrosa
Rioja, 1943
Eastern Pacific
Polydora colonia
Moore, 1907
Western Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
Polydora commensalis
Andrews, 1891
Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Polydora convexa
Blake & Woodwick, 1972
Eastern Pacific
Polydora cornuta
Bosc, 1802
Whip mudworm Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea
Polydora glycymerica
Radashevsky, 1993
Western Central Pacific
Polydora heterochaeta
Rioja, 1939
Eastern Pacific
Polydora hoplura
Claparede, 1870
Western Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Polydora laticephala
Hartmann-Schröder, 1959
Eastern Pacific
Polydora limicola
unspecified
Northern Pacific, Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea
Polydora nuchalis
Woodwick, 1953
Eastern Pacific
Polydora pacifica
Takahashi, 1937
Western Central Pacific
Polydora paucibranchis
Ehlers, 1913
Antarctic Indian Ocean
Polydora peristomialis
Hartman, 1974
Western Indian Ocean
Polydora pilikia
Ward, 1981
Northwest Pacific
Polydora plena
(Berkeley & Berkeley, 1936)
Western Central Atlantic
Polydora punctata
Hartmann-Schröder, 1959
Eastern Pacific
Polydora pygidialis
unspecified
Northeast Pacific
Polydora rickettesi
Woodwick, 1961
Eastern Pacific
Polydora socialis
(Schmarda, 1861)
Arctic, Pacific Ocean and Western Atlantic
Polydora spondylana
Mohammad, 1973
Western Indian Ocean
Polydora spongicola
Berkeley & Berkeley, 1950
Eastern Pacific and the Mediterranean Sea
Polydora tentaculata
Blake & Kudenov, 1978
Northwest Pacific
Polydora uncata
Berkeley & Berkeley, 1952
Eastern Pacific
Polydora vulgaris
Mohammad, 1972
Indo-West Pacific
Polydora websteri
Hartman, 1943
Oyster mudworm Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Polydora wobberi
Light, 1970
Eastern Pacific
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