Deep-Sea taxon details
Autolytinae Langerhans, 1879
152231 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152231)
accepted
Subfamily
- Tribe Autolytini Langerhans, 1879
- Genus Epigamia Nygren, 2004
- Genus Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845
- Genus Autolytus Grube, 1850 accepted as Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845 (subjective synonym)
- Tribe Procerini Nygren, 2004
- Genus Levidorum Hartman, 1967
- Genus Proceraea Ehlers, 1864
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Langerhans, Paul. (1879). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira [part I]. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32(4): 513-592, plates XXXI-XXXIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45240737
page(s): 573; note: As tribe 'Autolyteae' [details]
page(s): 573; note: As tribe 'Autolyteae' [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Autolytinae Langerhans, 1879. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152231 on 2026-06-14
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Autolytinae Langerhans, 1879. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152231 on 2026-06-14
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Langerhans, Paul. (1879). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira [part I]. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32(4): 513-592, plates XXXI-XXXIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45240737
page(s): 573; note: As tribe 'Autolyteae' [details]
taxonomy source San Martín, Guillermo; Hutchings, Pat; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia. (2026). Autolytinae (Annelida, Syllidae) from Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5830(1): 1-85., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5830.1.1
note: Monograph [details]
additional source San Martín, G. (2003). Annelida, Polychaeta II: Syllidae. <em>In: Ramos MA et al. (eds) Fauna Iberica, Vol 21, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC, Madrid.</em> p 1-554. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Rioja, Enrique. 1925. Anelidos poliquetos de San Vicente de la Barquera (Cantabrico). Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturale. Serie zoológica. 53: 1-62 [details]
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]
redescription Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Dietrich, Anna; Hager, Tatjana; Bönsch, Regine; Winkelmann, Charlotte; Schmidt, Andreas; Nygren, Arne. (2015). A new species of <i>Myrianida</i> (Autolytinae, Syllidae, Annelida) from the North Sea, with short notes on the distribution and habitat of Northeast Atlantic autolytines. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 11(8): 804-813., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2015.1016971
note: Keys to Autolytinae of W Europe and Mediterranean [details]
page(s): 573; note: As tribe 'Autolyteae' [details]
taxonomy source San Martín, Guillermo; Hutchings, Pat; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia. (2026). Autolytinae (Annelida, Syllidae) from Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5830(1): 1-85., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5830.1.1
note: Monograph [details]
additional source San Martín, G. (2003). Annelida, Polychaeta II: Syllidae. <em>In: Ramos MA et al. (eds) Fauna Iberica, Vol 21, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC, Madrid.</em> p 1-554. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Rioja, Enrique. 1925. Anelidos poliquetos de San Vicente de la Barquera (Cantabrico). Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturale. Serie zoológica. 53: 1-62 [details]
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]
redescription Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 25 [details] Available for editors
identification resource Dietrich, Anna; Hager, Tatjana; Bönsch, Regine; Winkelmann, Charlotte; Schmidt, Andreas; Nygren, Arne. (2015). A new species of <i>Myrianida</i> (Autolytinae, Syllidae, Annelida) from the North Sea, with short notes on the distribution and habitat of Northeast Atlantic autolytines. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 11(8): 804-813., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2015.1016971
note: Keys to Autolytinae of W Europe and Mediterranean [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Authority Langerhans (1879) has to be deemed as the author of Autolytinae as reported by San Martín (2003) and not Grube (1850) as reported by Nygren (2003). Grube erected (in very brief words) the genus Autolytus, but Langerhans proposed the tribe Autolyteae as a senior family-rank taxon of Autolytus, Proceraea, Myrianida, Virchowia and Procerastea. See Article 36 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, IV edition. Grube (1850) included Autolytus (as noted extremely briefly presented) in his family Syllidea, which he did not subdivide. San Martin et al (2026: 5) note that Nygren (2004) used "Autolytiini Grube, 1850". Presumably they are not meaning that this is a correct authorship. It is not correct, and would be an anomaly as earlier they have Langerhans as author of subfamily Autolytinae. Autolytini (tribe) and Autolytinae (subfamily) are family-level ranks and such ranks have only one author for all the family-level ranks possible. [details]
