Thelepus Leuckart, 1849

Hsueh, Pan-Wen & Li, Kuo-Rong, 2016, New species of Thelepodidae (Terebelliformia, Polychaeta) from Taiwan, Zootaxa 4170 (3), pp. 510-524 : 516

Genus Thelepus Leuckart, 1849

Type species. Thelepus cincinnataus ( Fabricius, 1780) Remarks. Forty-six species are currently included in the genus, including forty-three species listed in Read (2016b) and three new combination species, Thelepus abranchiatus ( Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) , Thelepus malayensis ( Caullery, 1944) , and Thelepus verrilli ( Treadwell, 1911) , as suggested by Hutchings & Glasby (1987) and Londoño-Mesa (2009). Of those forty-six species, only Thelepus plagiostoma ( Schmarda, 1861) , Thelepus opimus Hutchings, 1990 , and Thelepus pulvinus Hutchings, 1990 have been reported from the East China Sea and Hong Kong ( Yang & Sun 1988; Hutchings 1990), and none have been reported from Taiwanese waters. The present study adds two more species to the genus.