Polychaeta taxon details
Odontosyllis ctenostoma Claparède, 1868
131325 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131325)
accepted
Species
Odontosyllis virescens Marenzeller, 1874 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Pharyngeovalvata natalensis Day, 1951 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claparède, É. (1868). Les annélides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 19(2): 313-584, plates I-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14309905
page(s): 512 [details]
page(s): 512 [details]
Note Mediterranean Sea
Unreviewed
Type locality Mediterranean Sea [details]
Distribution Atlantic-Mediterranean
Distribution Atlantic-Mediterranean [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Odontosyllis ctenostoma Claparède, 1868. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131325 on 2025-07-05
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original description
Claparède, É. (1868). Les annélides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 19(2): 313-584, plates I-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14309905
page(s): 512 [details]
original description (of Odontosyllis virescens Marenzeller, 1874) Marenzeller, Emil von. (1874). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 69(4): 407-482, plates I-VII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8662886
page(s): 447-449, plate IV fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Pharyngeovalvata natalensis Day, 1951) Day, John H. (1951). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 1. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of Natal and Mosambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-67.
page(s): 26-27, text-fig. 4e-j [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record 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 Musco, Luigi; Giangrande, Adriana. (2005). Mediterranean Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) revisited: biogeography, diversity and species fidelity to environmental features. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 304: 143-153 + 4 pp. Supplementary appendix., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps304143 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [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]
additional source McIntosh, W. C. (1908). A monograph of British Annelids. <em>Ray Society of London, II. Part I. Polychaeta. Nephthydidae to Syllidae.</em> 2: 1-232., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McInA [details]
additional source Çinar, M. E.; Ergen, Z. (2003). Eusyllinae and Syllinae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from northen Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) with a checklist of species reported from the Levant Sea. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 72(3): 769-793. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1971).[use for POLYCHAETA] Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta 1-594. IN: Dahl, Maria and Peus, Fritz (Ed.). Vol. 58. Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Maermalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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]
page(s): 512 [details]
original description (of Odontosyllis virescens Marenzeller, 1874) Marenzeller, Emil von. (1874). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 69(4): 407-482, plates I-VII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8662886
page(s): 447-449, plate IV fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Pharyngeovalvata natalensis Day, 1951) Day, John H. (1951). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 1. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of Natal and Mosambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-67.
page(s): 26-27, text-fig. 4e-j [details] Available for editors

basis of record 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 Musco, Luigi; Giangrande, Adriana. (2005). Mediterranean Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) revisited: biogeography, diversity and species fidelity to environmental features. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 304: 143-153 + 4 pp. Supplementary appendix., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps304143 [details] Available for editors

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [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]
additional source McIntosh, W. C. (1908). A monograph of British Annelids. <em>Ray Society of London, II. Part I. Polychaeta. Nephthydidae to Syllidae.</em> 2: 1-232., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McInA [details]
additional source Çinar, M. E.; Ergen, Z. (2003). Eusyllinae and Syllinae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from northen Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) with a checklist of species reported from the Levant Sea. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 72(3): 769-793. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1971).[use for POLYCHAETA] Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta 1-594. IN: Dahl, Maria and Peus, Fritz (Ed.). Vol. 58. Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Maermalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. Gustav Fischer Verlag. Jena. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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]




Paratype (of Pharyngeovalvata natalensis Day, 1951) NHMUK 1961.16.16-17, geounit South African part of the Indian Ocean [details]
Unreviewed
Authority de Claparède, 1868 [details]Bioclimatic category temperate [details]
Distribution Atlantic-Mediterranean [details]
Specimen types not retained [details]
Type locality Mediterranean Sea [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Odontosyllis ctenostoma)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Odontosyllis virescens Marenzeller, 1874)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (15 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Odontosyllis ctenostoma)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Odontosyllis virescens Marenzeller, 1874)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (15 records)
To ITIS