WoRMS taxon details
Caulleriella Chamberlin, 1919
129241 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129241)
accepted
Genus
Cirratulus viridis Langerhans, 1880 accepted as Caulleriella viridis (Langerhans, 1880) (type by original designation)
Cirrineris (Mesocirrineris) Czerniavsky, 1881 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Caulleriella acicula Day, 1961
- Species Caulleriella alata (Southern, 1914)
- Species Caulleriella angusticrista Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Caulleriella antarctica Hartman, 1978
- Species Caulleriella apicula Blake, 1996
- Species Caulleriella armata (Hartman, 1963)
- Species Caulleriella bathytata Blake, 2019
- Species Caulleriella bioculata (Keferstein, 1862)
- Species Caulleriella bremecae Elias & Rivero, 2008
- Species Caulleriella cabbsi Pocklington & Coates, 2010
- Species Caulleriella capensis (Monro, 1930)
- Species Caulleriella chilensis Carrasco, 1977
- Species Caulleriella convexacapa Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Caulleriella cordiformia Magalhães & Bailey-Brock, 2013
- Species Caulleriella cristata Blake, 1996
- Species Caulleriella cryptica Blake, 2022
- Species Caulleriella cucula Dean & Blake, 2007
- Species Caulleriella dulcensis Dean & Blake, 2007
- Species Caulleriella ecuadoriana Blake, 2018
- Species Caulleriella eltaninae Blake, 2018
- Species Caulleriella filiformia Blake, 2021
- Species Caulleriella fimbriata Blake, 2018
- Species Caulleriella fragilis (Leidy, 1855)
- Species Caulleriella fucata Blake, 2018
- Species Caulleriella galeanoi Elias & Rivero, 2008
- Species Caulleriella glabra Gallardo, 1968
- Species Caulleriella hamata (Hartman, 1948)
- Species Caulleriella jormungandri Grosse, Kongsrud, Alvestad, Eilertsen & Budaeva, 2025
- Species Caulleriella kacyae Blake, 2018
- Species Caulleriella lajolla Blake, 1996
- Species Caulleriella magnaoculata Hartmann-Schröder, 1962
- Species Caulleriella mediterranea Lezzi, 2017
- Species Caulleriella microbidentata Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Caulleriella minuta Dean & Blake, 2007
- Species Caulleriella moralesensis Dean & Blake, 2007
- Species Caulleriella murilloi Dean & Blake, 2007
- Species Caulleriella nobska Blake, 2021
- Species Caulleriella pacifica E. Berkeley, 1929
- Species Caulleriella parapicula Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Caulleriella parva Gillandt, 1979
- Species Caulleriella parvinasa Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Caulleriella petersenae Díaz-Díaz, Cárdenas-Oliva & Liñero-Arana, 2014
- Species Caulleriella pintada Blake, 2021
- Species Caulleriella quadrata Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Caulleriella rodmani Blake, 2021
- Species Caulleriella suroestense Blake, 2018
- Species Caulleriella tricapillata Hutchings & Rainer, 1979
- Species Caulleriella trispina Elías & Rivero, 2011
- Species Caulleriella typhlops (Willey, 1905)
- Species Caulleriella venefica Doner & Blake, 2006
- Species Caulleriella viridis (Langerhans, 1880)
- Species Caulleriella afra (Augener, 1918) accepted as Caulleriella capensis (Monro, 1930) (subjective synonym)
- Species Caulleriella annulosa (Hartman, 1965) accepted as Kirkegaardia annulosa (Hartman, 1965) (superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Caulleriella bransfieldensis Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989 accepted as Chaetozone bransfieldensis (Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella caputesocis (Saint-Joseph, 1894) accepted as Chaetozone caputesocis (Saint-Joseph, 1894) (superseded recombination)
- Species Caulleriella dimorphosetosa Hutchings & Murray, 1984 accepted as Chaetozone dimorphosetosa (Hutchings & Murray, 1984) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella gracilis (Moore, 1923) accepted as Chaetozone gracilis (Moore, 1923) (superseded subsequent combination, Mistaken authority as Hartman in Hartman, 1969)
- Species Caulleriella homosetosa Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989 accepted as Chaetozone homosetosa (Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella killariensis (Southern, 1914) accepted as Tharyx killariensis (Southern, 1914) (superseded recombination)
- Species Caulleriella longisetosa Hutchings & Murray, 1984 accepted as Tharyx longisetosus (Hutchings & Murray, 1984) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella obtusa Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1990 accepted as Tharyx obtusus (Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella retusiseta Hutchings & Murray, 1984 accepted as Tharyx retusisetus (Hutchings & Murray, 1984) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella serrata Eliason, 1962 accepted as Kirkegaardia serrata (Eliason, 1962) (superseded original combination)
- Species Caulleriella zetlandica (McIntosh, 1911) accepted as Chaetozone zetlandica McIntosh, 1911 (superseded recombination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 372; note: Introduced with minimal explanation in a key and footnote, based on presence of acicular chaetae [details]
page(s): 372; note: Introduced with minimal explanation in a key and footnote, based on presence of acicular chaetae [details]
Note Chamberlin stated clearly the type species was...
From editor or global species database
Type species Chamberlin stated clearly the type species was Cirratulus viridis Langerhans (type by original designation). However the type species is as Cirratulus bioculatus Keferstein 1862 in Fauchald, 1977:29 & Day (1967:507), and both of these claims were incorrect. Probably meant as the then current valid name basionym reference, because C. viridis has been synonymised to C. bioculatus in the past. [details]
Etymology Unstated but presumably named after Maurice Caullery, a prolific contemporary French author to Chamberlin. The form...
Taxonomy Chamberlin introduced Caulleriella as a new genus in a key, and in a footnote he wrote: "Genotype, C. viridis (Langerhans)...
Etymology Unstated but presumably named after Maurice Caullery, a prolific contemporary French author to Chamberlin. The form 'Caulleriella' is a diminutive, and -ella diminutives seem always to be treated as feminine. Examples of -ella in the Code indicate it is feminine [details]
Taxonomy Chamberlin introduced Caulleriella as a new genus in a key, and in a footnote he wrote: "Genotype, C. viridis (Langerhans)...
Taxonomy Chamberlin introduced Caulleriella as a new genus in a key, and in a footnote he wrote: "Genotype, C. viridis (Langerhans) (Cirratulus viridis Langerhans). Including also Helerocirrus caput-esocis St. Joseph, Cirratulus fragilis Leidy, and perhaps Cirratulus bioculatus Keferstein." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Caulleriella Chamberlin, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129241 on 2025-07-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 372; note: Introduced with minimal explanation in a key and footnote, based on presence of acicular chaetae [details]
original description (of Cirrineris (Mesocirrineris) Czerniavsky, 1881) Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1881). Materialia ad zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III Vermes [Second part]. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody).</em> 56(2): 338-420, 1 plate., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41340542
page(s): 375 [details]
page(s): 372; note: Introduced with minimal explanation in a key and footnote, based on presence of acicular chaetae [details]
original description (of Cirrineris (Mesocirrineris) Czerniavsky, 1881) Czerniavsky, Voldemaro. (1881). Materialia ad zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III Vermes [Second part]. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (= Byulletin' Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytatelei prirody).</em> 56(2): 338-420, 1 plate., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41340542
page(s): 375 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Blake, James A. (2021). New species and records of Caulleriella (Annelida, Cirratulidae) from shelf and slope depths of the Western North Atlantic Ocean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4990(2): 253-279., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4990.2.3
page(s): 273; note: includes a table on characters of deep-sea species of Caulleriella [details]
page(s): 273; note: includes a table on characters of deep-sea species of Caulleriella [details]
Other
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 Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [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 Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Unstated but presumably named after Maurice Caullery, a prolific contemporary French author to Chamberlin. The form 'Caulleriella' is a diminutive, and -ella diminutives seem always to be treated as feminine. Examples of -ella in the Code indicate it is feminine [details]Grammatical gender Feminine. Treated as feminine by subsequent authors, and Latinised -ella diminutives seem to be treated as feminine, including in Code examples (eg article 30.1.3). Although Caullery was male the compound genus noun takes the gender of the suffix [details]
Taxonomy Chamberlin introduced Caulleriella as a new genus in a key, and in a footnote he wrote: "Genotype, C. viridis (Langerhans) (Cirratulus viridis Langerhans). Including also Helerocirrus caput-esocis St. Joseph, Cirratulus fragilis Leidy, and perhaps Cirratulus bioculatus Keferstein." [details]
Type species Chamberlin stated clearly the type species was Cirratulus viridis Langerhans (type by original designation). However the type species is as Cirratulus bioculatus Keferstein 1862 in Fauchald, 1977:29 & Day (1967:507), and both of these claims were incorrect. Probably meant as the then current valid name basionym reference, because C. viridis has been synonymised to C. bioculatus in the past. [details]
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
