Galapagos Species Database
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Lepidonotopodium riftense
Gusano escamoso, Scale worms
From hydrothermal vents off the Galapagos (Pettibone, 1984)
Habitat: Deep-water
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Order
Phyllodocida
Family
Polynoidae
Genus
Lepidonotopodium
Species
riftense
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: 80635, USNM - National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Galapagos Islands, latitude 0.805 (0° 48' 18" N), longitude -86.225 (86° 13' 30" W) Depth: 2447 m, Date: 1979-02-19 (Ahyong, et al 2023).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Mexico, Peru and Galapagos Islands (Palomares & Pauly, 2023).
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Palomares, M.L.D. D. Pauly. Eds. (2023) SeaLifeBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.sealifebase.org, version (11/2023).
- Pettibone, M. H. (1984) Two new species of Lepidonotopodium (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Lepidonotopodinae) from hydrothermal vents off the Galapagos and East Pacific Rise at 21 degree N. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97(4), 849–863.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lepidonotopodium riftense", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25291. Accessed 31 October 2026.