Polychaeta name details
Exogone (Sylline) [ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ]
238173 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238173)
unaccepted > misapplication (Sylline cannot be used in Exogoninae)
Subgenus
Sylline [ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ] · unaccepted > misapplication (misapplication of an Autolytinae...)
misapplication of an Autolytinae name to an Exogoninae
- Species Exogone (Sylline) aquadulcensis Pascual, Núñez & San Martín, 1996 accepted as Exogone aquadulcensis Pascual, Nuñez & San Martín, 1996 (unaccepted > misapplication, Sylline is not an exogonin genus)
- Species Exogone (Sylline) brevipes (Claparède, 1864) accepted as Exogone brevipes (Claparède, 1864) (unaccepted > superseded combination, misapplication by Claparède then San Martin. Sylline cannot be in Exogone)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Sylline [ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ]) 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): 550 [details]
page(s): 550 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Exogone (Sylline) [ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ]. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238173 on 2025-05-01
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(of Sylline [ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ]) 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): 550 [details]
page(s): 550 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Sylline Grube 1860 cannot be used as an Exogonin genus because the physical type is the Autolytin Myrianida rubropunctata (Grube, 1860). If necessary a new name must be found for the exogonin taxa authors including San Martin (2005) have created using what they have said is Sylline Claparède, 1864. Claparède did not create a new Sylline genus; that would have been a homonym, and he knew Grube had already used Sylline. Instead he misapplied Grube's name to an exogonin species. The respective entities are illustrated by Grube and by Claparède and are very different. Without commenting on this fundamental nomenclatural and taxonomic difficulty Fukuda et al (2024: 3) report that this division of Exogone into subgenera (including 'Sylline') had been abandoned as a result of molecular analyses. [details]
