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Syllis variegata Grube, 1860

131458  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131458)

  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. Syllis (Genus)
  11. Syllis variegata (Species)
accepted
Species
Syllis hexagonifera Claparède, 1864 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Syllis oblonga Keferstein, 1862 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Syllis schmardiana Haswell, 1886 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Syllis varlegata Grube, 1860 · unaccepted (lapsus calami)
Thoe fusiformis Kinberg, 1866 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Typosyllis cirromaculata Hartmann-Schröder, 1960 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Typosyllis oblonga (Keferstein, 1862) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination...)  
superseded subsequent combination of subjective synonym

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Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 85-86, plate III fig. 6 [details] OpenAccess publication
Holotype  MPW 672, geounit Croatia  
Holotype MPW 672, geounit Croatia [details]
, Note Adriatic Sea, Croatia, near Cres (= Cherso)...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Adriatic Sea, Croatia, near Cres (= Cherso) (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with a gazetteer to be approximately lat. 44.958º, long. 14.408º).  [details]
Depth range Not stated in original description. Intertidal to 100 m, but recorded to be present at 1500 m.   
Depth range Not stated in original description. Intertidal to 100 m, but recorded to be present at 1500 m.  [details]

Distribution Considered to be cosmopolitan.   
Distribution Considered to be cosmopolitan.  [details]

Etymology The specific epithet variegata is the feminine of the Latin adjective variegato, meaning 'variegated, exhibiting different...  
Etymology The specific epithet variegata is the feminine of the Latin adjective variegato, meaning 'variegated, exhibiting different colours, especially as irregular patches or streaks', and refers to the complex color pattern of the species.  [details]

Distribution Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958).
Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).  
Distribution Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958).
Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Syllis variegata Grube, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131458 on 2025-05-21
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan, Gérard
2007-03-29 10:21:37Z
checked
Musco, Luigi
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian

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Nomenclature

original description Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 85-86, plate III fig. 6 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Syllis armoricana Claparède, 1863) Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 39-40, plate XIII figs. 21-23, 25-27 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Syllis oblonga Keferstein, 1862) Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 109-111, plate IX figs. 37-44 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Syllis hexagonifera Claparède, 1864) 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): 533-535, plate V fig. 2 [details] 

original description (of Syllis aurantiaca Claparède, 1868) 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 [details] 

original description (of Syllis schmardiana Haswell, 1886) Haswell, William A. (1886). Observation on some Australian Polychaeta. Part I. [ section headings: I. Syllidae. II. Staurocephalus. III. Eulalia. IV. Psamathe. IV. Siphonostoma. V. Halla.]. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 10(4): 733-756, plates L-LV., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6598060
page(s): 742-744, plate LI figs. 4-8 [details] 

original description (of Typosyllis cirromaculata Hartmann-Schröder, 1960) Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1960. Polychaeten aus dem Roten Meer. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 16(1): 69-125., available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001489/148944mo.pdf
page(s): 82-83, plate 6 figs. 45-46 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Syllis sardai San Martín, 1992) San Martín, Guillermo. (1992). <i>Syllis</i> Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Cuba, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and North Carolina, with a revision of several species described by Verrill. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 51(2): 167-196., available online at https://bit.ly/2XCD39q
page(s): 176-177, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Thoe fusiformis Kinberg, 1866) Kinberg, J. G. H. (1866). Annulata Nova. Continuatio. [various errantia & sedentaria]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(4): 239-258., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339515
page(s): 249 [details] 

Taxonomy

taxonomy source San Martín, Guillermo; Lucas, Yolanda; Hutchings, Pat. (2023). The genus Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1881 [sic for 1818] (Annelida: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Australia (Part 3): new species and redescription of previously described species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5230(3): 251-295., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5230.3.1
page(s): 289, figure 21; note: description and record for Ulladulla Head, NSW, Australia. Authors doubt the apparent cosmopolitan distribution of Syllis variegata [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

source of synonymy 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

redescription Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 [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)
page(s): 351-354, figs. 190-191 [details] 

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (HKRMS) Huang ZG., Yan SK. &Zheng DQ. (1992). Biofouling communities on pier pilings in Mirs Bay. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Fourth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 2: pp 529-543. [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 Marenzeller, E. von. (1875). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. Zweiter Beitrag. (Polynoinen, Hesioneen, Syllideen). <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 72 (1): 129-171, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8773985
page(s): 147-150, plate II fig. 2 [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)
note: Checklist listing for Europe [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  PDF available [request]

additional source Çinar, Melih Ertan; Gambi, Maria Cristina. (2005). Cognetti's syllid collection (Polychaeta: Syllidae) deposited at the Museum of the Stazione Zoologica ‘‘Anton Dohrn'' (Naples, Italy), with descriptions of two new species of <i>Autolytus</i>. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 39(10): 725-762., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930400001327 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype MPW 672, geounit Croatia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in original description. Intertidal to 100 m, but recorded to be present at 1500 m.  [details]

Distribution Considered to be cosmopolitan.  [details]

Etymology The specific epithet variegata is the feminine of the Latin adjective variegato, meaning 'variegated, exhibiting different colours, especially as irregular patches or streaks', and refers to the complex color pattern of the species.  [details]

Habitat Not stated in the original description. Common in coralligenous and pre-coralligenous sediments, Posidonia meadows, maërl, photophilic and sciaphilic algae, muddy detritic bottoms, animal and vegetal calcareous grounds, vermetid reefs, corals, and as sponge endobiotic. Known from seamounts and knolls.  [details]

Type locality Adriatic Sea, Croatia, near Cres (= Cherso) (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with a gazetteer to be approximately lat. 44.958º, long. 14.408º).  [details]

Unreviewed
Bioclimatic category temperate-warm [details]

Distribution Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958).
Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
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LanguageName 
Japanese トラシリス [from synonym]  [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Syllis sardai San Martín, 1992)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Syllis aurantiaca Claparède, 1868)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Typosyllis variegata (Grube, 1860))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Typosyllis variegata (Grube, 1860))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Syllis variegata) 
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis (Typosyllis) variegata (Grube, 1860))
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis variegata (Grube, 1860))
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis (Syllis) variegata (Grube, 1860))
To PESI (from synonym Syllis variegata variegata Cognetti, 1954)
To PESI (from synonym Syllis (Typosyllis) variegata variegata Cognetti, 1954)
To PESI (from synonym Syllis varlegata Grube, 1860)
To PESI (from synonym Syllis oblonga Keferstein, 1862)
To PESI (from synonym Syllis armoricana Claparède, 1863)
To PESI (from synonym Isosyllis armoricana (Claparède, 1863))
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis armoricana (Claparède, 1863))
To PESI (from synonym Syllis hexagonifera Claparède, 1864)
To PESI (from synonym Syllis (Typosyllis) variegata Grube, 1860)
To PESI (from synonym Syllis aurantiaca Claparède, 1868)
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis aurantiaca (Claparède, 1868))
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis (Syllis) aurantiaca (Claparède, 1868))
To PESI (from synonym Syllis schmardiana Haswell, 1886)
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis variegata profunda (Cognetti, 1954))
To PESI (from synonym Typosyllis cirromaculata Hartmann-Schröder, 1960)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (3 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (5 records) (from synonym Syllis (Typosyllis) variegata Grube, 1860)
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