MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Bylgides Chamberlin, 1919

WoRMS taxon details

Bylgides Chamberlin, 1919

AphiaID

129483 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129483)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Bylgia elegans Théel, 1879 accepted as Bylgides elegans (Théel, 1879)

Parent

Polynoinae Kinberg, 1856

Original name

Bylgides Chamberlin, 1919

Synonymised names

Antinoana Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Antinoella Augener, 1928 · unaccepted (superseded subsequent rank of...)

superseded subsequent rank of subjective synonym

Bylgia Théel, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)

Harmothoe (Antinoella) Augener, 1928 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

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Species Bylgides acutisetis Loshamn, 1981
Species Bylgides annenkovae Pettibone, 1993
Species Bylgides belfastensis Pettibone, 1993
Species Bylgides elegans (Théel, 1879)
Species Bylgides fuscus (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971)
Species Bylgides groenlandicus (Malmgren, 1867)
Species Bylgides macrolepidus (Moore, 1905)
Species Bylgides promamme (Malmgren, 1867)
Species Bylgides sarsi (Kinberg in Malmgren, 1866)
Species Bylgides acutiseris [auctt., misspelling for acutisetis] accepted as Bylgides acutisetis Loshamn, 1981 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Bylgides anoculata (Moore, 1910) accepted as Eucranta anoculata (Moore, 1910) (superseded recombination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 37, 40.; note: The genus Bylgides was originally named Bylgia by Théel. However this name was preoccupied and so in this publication Chamberlin established the new name. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Bylgides Chamberlin, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129483 on 2025-04-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan, Gérard

2006-09-07 06:51:43Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2007-01-22 09:31:04Z

checked

Barnich, Ruth

2007-02-01 10:44:13Z

changed

Barnich, Ruth

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2023-07-05 21:14:13Z

changed

Gil, João

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 37, 40.; note: The genus Bylgides was originally named Bylgia by Théel. However this name was preoccupied and so in this publication Chamberlin established the new name. [details]

original description (of Antinoella Augener, 1928) Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834. [details]

original description (of Harmothoe (Antinoella) Augener, 1928) Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834.
page(s): 687, no figures; note: based on a specimen from Spitzbergen identified as Antinoe sarsi Kinberg [details]

original description (of Bylgia Théel, 1879) Théel, H.J. (1879). Les Annélides Polychètes des mers de la Nouvelle-Zemble. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar. 16(3): 1-75, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33811612 [details]

original description (of Antinoana Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology. 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458
page(s): 20-21 [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Revision of some species referred to Antinoe, Antinoella, Antinoana, Bylgides, and Harmothoe (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Harmothoinae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 545: 1-41., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5681
page(s): 3-4; note: diagnosis and key to species [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]