original description
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 91 [details]
taxonomy source
Sikorski, Andrey V. (2011). Review of <i>Laonice</i> (Spionidae, Annelida) with remarks on several species and a description of a new species from South Africa. <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 78(S1): 201-214., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.617218
page(s): 104 [details] Available for editors 
taxonomy source
Sikorski, Andrey; Pavlova, Lyudmila V. (2016). Three new species of <em>Laonice </em>(Polychaete: Spionidae) from West and Southwest Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4097(3): 353-368., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.4
note: Discusses within-genus species groups [details]
taxonomy source
Bogantes, Viktoria E.; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Meißner, Karin. (2018). Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of North Atlantic <i>Laonice</i> Malmgren, 1867 (Spionidae, Annelida) including the description of a novel species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 48(2): 737-749., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-018-0859-8
note: new species, and discusses lack of molecular confirmation for Sikorski et al (2017) new subgenera [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source
Sikorski, Andrey; Pavlova, Lyudmila; Martin, Daniel; Gil, João. (2023). New sublittoral species of <em>Laonice</em> (Annelida: Spionidae) from southern Asian coasts. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5277(3): 490-508., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5277.3.3
note: 4 new species, with key for Asian Indo-Pacific species [details] Available for editors
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
identification resource
Delgado-Blas, Víctor H.; Diaz-Diaz, Oscar; Rozbaczylo, Nicolás. (2024). <em>Laonice</em> Malmgren, 1867 (Annelida: Spionidae) from the Aysén region in southern Chile with description of a new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5551(1): 157-166., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5551.1.7
page(s): 165, key; note: Key to Laonice species from South America [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Not stated, uncertain. Laonice could refer to the character Laonice, sister of Timagène and confident of Cléopâtre in the tragedy in five acts 'Rodogune', by Pierre Corneille (1606-1684). It could also refer to Laonice, referred by the Greek traveler and geographer Pausanias (c. AD 110 - c. 180) in his work 'Description of Greece'. According to Pausanias, Laonice was the wife of Lebadeus, after whom the name of the city Mideia, in Phocis (Ancient Greece), was changed to Lebadeia [details]
Taxonomy The genus Laonice is established briefly by Malmgren (1867: 91), stating that the species Scolecolepis cirrata ''Ad proprium genus novum: Laonice n. pertiens''. [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Type species Type species Nerine cirrata Sars 1850 in Fauchald, 1977<246>. [details]
