Polychaeta taxon details

Trypanosyllis Claparède, 1864

129681  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129681)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Nereidiformia (Suborder)
  8. Syllidae (Family)
  9. Syllinae (Subfamily)
  10. Trypanosyllis (Genus)
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  1. Subgenus Trypanosyllis (Trypanosyllis)
    1. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanosyllis) hawaiiensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1978
    2. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanosyllis) coeliaca Claparède, 1868 accepted as Pseudosyllis brevipennis Grube, 1863 (alternate representation of subjective synonym)
  2. Species Trypanosyllis aeolis Langerhans, 1879
  3. Species Trypanosyllis agilis (Verrill, 1882)
  4. Species Trypanosyllis ankyloseta Day, 1960
  5. Species Trypanosyllis attenuata Verrill, 1900
  6. Species Trypanosyllis aurantiacus Nogueira & Fukuda, 2008
  7. Species Trypanosyllis bidentata Hartman, 1967
  8. Species Trypanosyllis brevicirrata Uschakov, 1950
  9. Species Trypanosyllis californiensis Álvarez-Campos & Rouse in Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo, 2017
  10. Species Trypanosyllis complanata (Treadwell, 1901)
  11. Species Trypanosyllis cristoboi Álvarez-Campos, Taboada, San Martín, Leiva & Riesgo, 2018
  12. Species Trypanosyllis crosslandi Potts, 1911
  13. Species Trypanosyllis devae Álvarez-Campos, Taboada, San Martín, Leiva & Riesgo, 2018
  14. Species Trypanosyllis didenkai Averincev, 1972
  15. Species Trypanosyllis dollfusi (Fauvel, 1933)
  16. Species Trypanosyllis estebani Álvarez-Campos, Taboada, San Martín, Leiva & Riesgo, 2018
  17. Species Trypanosyllis foliosa Imajima, 2003
  18. Species Trypanosyllis gemmulifera Augener, 1918
  19. Species Trypanosyllis ingens Johnson, 1902
  20. Species Trypanosyllis inglei Perkins, 1981
  21. Species Trypanosyllis intermedia Moore, 1909
  22. Species Trypanosyllis kalkin Álvarez-Campos & Verdes in Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo, 2017
  23. Species Trypanosyllis krohnii Claparède, 1864
  24. Species Trypanosyllis leivai Álvarez-Campos, Riesgo & San Martín in Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo, 2017
  25. Species Trypanosyllis luquei Álvarez-Campos & Verdes in Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo, 2017
  26. Species Trypanosyllis luzonensis (Pillai, 1965)
  27. Species Trypanosyllis mercedesae Lucas Rodríguez, San Martín & Fiege, 2019
  28. Species Trypanosyllis microdenticulata Salcedo Oropeza, San Martín & Solís-Weiss, 2011
  29. Species Trypanosyllis migueli Álvarez-Campos, Taboada, San Martín, Leiva & Riesgo, 2018
  30. Species Trypanosyllis parazebra Hartmann-Schröder, 1965
  31. Species Trypanosyllis parvidentata Perkins, 1981
  32. Species Trypanosyllis prampramensis Augener, 1918
  33. Species Trypanosyllis sanchezi Álvarez-Campos, Taboada, San Martín, Leiva & Riesgo, 2018
  34. Species Trypanosyllis sanmartini Çinar, 2007
  35. Species Trypanosyllis savagei Perkins, 1981
  36. Species Trypanosyllis striata Perejaslavtseva, 1891
  37. Species Trypanosyllis taboadai Álvarez-Campos, Riesgo & San Martín in Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo, 2017
  38. Species Trypanosyllis taeniaeformis (Haswell, 1886)
  39. Species Trypanosyllis tenella Verrill, 1900
  40. Species Trypanosyllis troll Ramos, San Martín & Sikorski, 2010
  41. Species Trypanosyllis vittigera Ehlers, 1887
  42. Species Trypanosyllis zebra (Grube, 1860)
  43. Subgenus Trypanosyllis (Trypanedenta) Imajima & Hartman, 1964 accepted as Trypanedenta Imajima & Hartman, 1964 (rank upgrade to genus)
    1. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanedenta) gemmipara Johnson, 1901 accepted as Trypanedenta gemmipara (Johnson, 1901) (superseded subsequent combination)
    2. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanedenta) taeniaeformis (Haswell, 1886) accepted as Trypanosyllis taeniaeformis (Haswell, 1886) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination)
  44. Subgenus Trypanosyllis (Trypanobia) Imajima & Hartman, 1964 accepted as Trypanobia Imajima & Hartman, 1964 (rank upgrade to genus)
    1. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanobia) foliosa Imajima, 2003
    2. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanobia) asterobia Okada, 1933 accepted as Trypanobia asterobia (Okada, 1933) (superseded alternate representation of original combination)
    3. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanobia) depressa (Augener, 1913) accepted as Trypanobia depressa (Augener, 1913) (superseded recombination)
  45. Subgenus Trypanosyllis (Trypanoseta) Imajima & Hartman, 1964 accepted as Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (subjective synonym)
    1. Species Trypanosyllis (Trypanoseta) ohma Imajima & Hartman, 1964 accepted as Haplosyllis ohma (Imajima & Hartman, 1964) (superseded original combination)
  46. Species Trypanosyllis adamanteus Treadwell, 1914 accepted as Syllis adamantea (Treadwell, 1914) (superseded original combination)
  47. Species Trypanosyllis asterobia Okada, 1933 accepted as Trypanobia asterobia (Okada, 1933) (superseded original combination)
  48. Species Trypanosyllis coeliaca Claparède, 1868 accepted as Pseudosyllis brevipennis Grube, 1863 (subjective synonym)
  49. Species Trypanosyllis fertilis Verrill, 1900 accepted as Syllis corallicola Verrill, 1900 (subjective synonym)
  50. Species Trypanosyllis gemmipara Johnson, 1901 accepted as Trypanedenta gemmipara (Johnson, 1901) (superseded original combination)
  51. Species Trypanosyllis gigantea (McIntosh, 1885) accepted as Trypanedenta gigantea (McIntosh, 1885) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination)
  52. Species Trypanosyllis misakiensis Izuka, 1906 accepted as Trypanosyllis aeolis Langerhans, 1879 (subjective synonym)
  53. Species Trypanosyllis occipitalis Hutton, 1904 in Augener, 1913 accepted as Odontosyllis polycera (Schmarda, 1861) (subjective synonym)
  54. Species Trypanosyllis picta (Kinberg, 1866) accepted as Syllis picta (Kinberg, 1866) (superseded recombination)
  55. Species Trypanosyllis richardi Gravier, 1900 accepted as Trypanosyllis taeniaeformis (Haswell, 1886) (subjective synonym)
  56. Species Trypanosyllis rosea (Grube, 1863) accepted as Pseudosyllis brevipennis Grube, 1863 (recombination of subjective synonym)
  57. Species Trypanosyllis uncinigera Hartmann-Schröder, 1960 accepted as Branchiosyllis exilis (Gravier, 1900) (subjective synonym)
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Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972
page(s): 558 [details] 
Note The type species is Trypanosyllis krohnii....  
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Type species The type species is Trypanosyllis krohnii. This has always been true as it is a type by monotypy, and thus no other possible candidate for type exists, and a subsequent designation from all originally included species (one) as an act proposed in Álvarez-Campos et al (2017) is clearly not needed and is illogical. It is not possible for T. zebra for example to be considered as the type species, but nevertheless its name may appear as type in loose usages in past literature simply because it was then the senior synonym of T. krohnii, and the two entities were thus not considered different. Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo (2017: 492, 522) stated that they were newly clarifying the situation regarding T. zebra versus T. krohnii as type, because "Many years later Hartman (1959) designed [sic] Trypanosyllis zebra as the type species of the genus by subsequent designation (ICZN, article 69.1), and since then all the authors except Day (1967) considered this designation as valid [...] Our study found that Hartman’s designation is in fact not valid ...". However, Article 69 does not apply here. It is true that Hartman wrongly stated the type species, but the Hartman Catalogue cannot be considered as subsequently designating T. zebra as Trypanosyllis type species, because T. zebra was not an originally included species in the genus (Art. 68) and the type is already fixed by monotypy (Art. 68.3) to be T. krohnii. Day (1967) more exactly presented the type species as "Trypanosyllis krohnii Claparede, 1864 (= Syllis zebra Grube, 1860)". Other authors may have understood this coupling of the two names also but were less rigorous in their presentation, or they may have simply copied the type from Hartman's listing [G. Read, March, 2017] [details]
Type species Type species is Trypanosyllis krohnii Claparède, 1864, by monotypy. [details]
Etymology Not stated. The generic name Trypanosyllis is composed by the prefix trypano-, derived from the Latin word trypanon and...  
Etymology Not stated. The generic name Trypanosyllis is composed by the prefix trypano-, derived from the Latin word trypanon and meaning 'trepan' (a boring tool consisting of a shaft with a cylindrical toothed blade at one end and a handle normally perpendicular to the shaft at the other and used to drill circular holes in different materials), and Syllis, the name of the type genus of the family Syllidae, and seems to refer to the anterior end of the pharynx being armed with a circle of teeth, resembling a trepan.  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Trypanosyllis Claparède, 1864. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129681 on 2025-06-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Bellan, Gérard
2006-01-25 15:50:31Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-07-13 10:07:35Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-03-29 10:21:37Z
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Musco, Luigi
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2015-12-04 17:09:27Z
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Gil, João
2016-05-30 10:07:57Z
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Gil, João

original description Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972
page(s): 558 [details] 

taxonomy source Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Giribet, Gonzalo; San Martín, Guillermo; Rouse, Greg W.; Riesgo, Ana. (2017). Straightening the striped chaos: systematics and evolution of <i>Trypanosyllis</i> and the case of its pseudocryptic type species <i>Trypanosyllis krohnii</i> (Annelida, Syllidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 179(3): 492–540., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/doi/10.1111/zoj.12443/3058147/Straightening-the-striped-chaos-systematics-and [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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] 

additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. <em>Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.</em> 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/ [details] 

additional source 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 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 649 [details] OpenAccess publication

redescription 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] 
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Claparède (1864: 558): ''Syllidés à lobes frontaux très-saillants, séparés sur toute leur longueur. Pharynx rectiligne, armé à son bord antérieur d'un cercle de dentelures comme un trépan. Antennes, au nombre de trois, cirres tentaculaires et cirres dorsaux moniliformes. Cirres ventraux pinniformes. Reproduction par génération alternante. Individus sexués semblables à ceux des Syllis.'' [details]

Etymology Not stated. The generic name Trypanosyllis is composed by the prefix trypano-, derived from the Latin word trypanon and meaning 'trepan' (a boring tool consisting of a shaft with a cylindrical toothed blade at one end and a handle normally perpendicular to the shaft at the other and used to drill circular holes in different materials), and Syllis, the name of the type genus of the family Syllidae, and seems to refer to the anterior end of the pharynx being armed with a circle of teeth, resembling a trepan.  [details]

Type species The type species is Trypanosyllis krohnii. This has always been true as it is a type by monotypy, and thus no other possible candidate for type exists, and a subsequent designation from all originally included species (one) as an act proposed in Álvarez-Campos et al (2017) is clearly not needed and is illogical. It is not possible for T. zebra for example to be considered as the type species, but nevertheless its name may appear as type in loose usages in past literature simply because it was then the senior synonym of T. krohnii, and the two entities were thus not considered different. Álvarez-Campos, Giribet, San Martín, Rouse & Riesgo (2017: 492, 522) stated that they were newly clarifying the situation regarding T. zebra versus T. krohnii as type, because "Many years later Hartman (1959) designed [sic] Trypanosyllis zebra as the type species of the genus by subsequent designation (ICZN, article 69.1), and since then all the authors except Day (1967) considered this designation as valid [...] Our study found that Hartman’s designation is in fact not valid ...". However, Article 69 does not apply here. It is true that Hartman wrongly stated the type species, but the Hartman Catalogue cannot be considered as subsequently designating T. zebra as Trypanosyllis type species, because T. zebra was not an originally included species in the genus (Art. 68) and the type is already fixed by monotypy (Art. 68.3) to be T. krohnii. Day (1967) more exactly presented the type species as "Trypanosyllis krohnii Claparede, 1864 (= Syllis zebra Grube, 1860)". Other authors may have understood this coupling of the two names also but were less rigorous in their presentation, or they may have simply copied the type from Hartman's listing [G. Read, March, 2017] [details]

Type species Type species is Trypanosyllis krohnii Claparède, 1864, by monotypy. [details]
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