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Malacoceros indicus

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Malacoceros indicus is a species in the family Spionidae.

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Quick facts about Malacoceros indicus

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Malacoceros indicus live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Malacoceros indicus as introduced in 1 country.

  1. India

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Malacoceros indicus endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Malacoceros indicus classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumAnnelida
  3. classPolychaeta
  4. familySpionidae
  5. genusMalacoceros
  6. SpeciesMalacoceros indicus (Fauvel, 1928)

Synonyms Malacoceros indicus, Malacoceros punctatus, Scolecolepis indica, Scolelepis indica, Spio punctata

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • ツノスピオJapanese
  • 印度錐稚蟲Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Malacoceros indicus

Other species in the same genus Malacoceros.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Malacoceros indicus an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Malacoceros indicus as introduced in 1 country: India, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Malacoceros indicus (Malacoceros indicus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/malacoceros-indicus

MLA

“Malacoceros indicus (Malacoceros indicus).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/malacoceros-indicus.

BibTeX
@misc{malacoceros_indicus_2026,
  title = {Malacoceros indicus (Malacoceros indicus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/malacoceros-indicus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}