Species under Phascolosoma
n= 21
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Phascolosoma agassizii
Keferstein, 1866
Agassiz'z peanut worm Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean 4
Phascolosoma albolineatum
Baird, 1868
Indo-Pacific 4
Phascolosoma annulatum
Hutton, 1879
Indo-West Pacific 5
Phascolosoma arcuatum
(Gray, 1828)
Indo-West Pacific 8.3
Phascolosoma capitatum
(Gerould, 1913)
Southeast Pacific and Northeast Atlantic
Phascolosoma granulatum
Leuckart, 1828
Eastern Central Atlantic, North Atlantic and the Mediterranean 1.8
Phascolosoma japonicum
Ivanova, Nedashkovskaya, Zhukova, Nicolau, Christen & Mikhailov, 2003
Troitsa Bay, Gulf of Peter the Great, Sea of Japan
Phascolosoma lobostomum
Fischer, 1895
Indo-Pacific
Phascolosoma maculatum
(Sluiter, 1886)
Western Central Pacific
Phascolosoma meteori
(Hérubel, 1904)
Indo-West Pacific 1.3
Phascolosoma nigrescens
Keferstein, 1865
Indo-Pacific and Western Central Atlantic 4
Phascolosoma noduliferum
Stimpson, 1855
Indo-West Pacific
Phascolosoma pacificum
Keferstein, 1866
Indo-Pacific 12.5
Phascolosoma parvum
Chen, 1963
Northwest Pacific
Phascolosoma pelmum
Cutler, E.B.
East Indian Ocean and West Central Pacific Ocean
Phascolosoma perlucens
Baird, 1868
Western Central Atlantic, Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean 5
Phascolosoma saprophagicum
Gibbs, 1987
Southwest Pacific
Phascolosoma scolops
(Selenka & de Man, 1883)
Indo-Pacific and the Mediterranean 6.5
Phascolosoma sinense
Chen, 1963
Northwest Pacific
Phascolosoma stephensoni
(Stephen, 1942)
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea 0.7
Phascolosoma turnerae
Rice, 1985
Western Central Atlantic, Southwest Pacific and the Mediterranean
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