WoRMS taxon details
Bylgides Chamberlin, 1919
129483 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129483)
accepted
Genus
Antinoana Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Antinoella Augener, 1928 · unaccepted (superseded subsequent rank of...)
superseded subsequent rank of subjective synonym
Bylgia Théel, 1879 · unaccepted (replaced junior homonym)
Harmothoe (Antinoella) Augener, 1928 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Bylgides acutisetis Loshamn, 1981
- Species Bylgides annenkovae Pettibone, 1993
- Species Bylgides belfastensis Pettibone, 1993
- Species Bylgides cinthyae Ogawa, Miranda & Rizzo, 2025
- Species Bylgides elegans (Théel, 1879)
- Species Bylgides fuscus (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971)
- Species Bylgides groenlandicus (Malmgren, 1867)
- Species Bylgides macrolepidus (Moore, 1905)
- Species Bylgides promamme (Malmgren, 1867)
- Species Bylgides samueli Ogawa, Miranda & Rizzo, 2025
- Species Bylgides sarsi (Kinberg in Malmgren, 1866)
- Species Bylgides acutiseris [auctt., misspelling for acutisetis] accepted as Bylgides acutisetis Loshamn, 1981 (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Bylgides anoculata (Moore, 1910) accepted as Eucranta anoculata (Moore, 1910) (superseded recombination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 37, 40.; note: The genus Bylgides was originally named Bylgia by Théel. However this name was preoccupied and so in this publication Chamberlin established the new name. [details]
page(s): 37, 40.; note: The genus Bylgides was originally named Bylgia by Théel. However this name was preoccupied and so in this publication Chamberlin established the new name. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Bylgides Chamberlin, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129483 on 2026-03-31
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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): 37, 40.; note: The genus Bylgides was originally named Bylgia by Théel. However this name was preoccupied and so in this publication Chamberlin established the new name. [details]
original description (of Antinoella Augener, 1928) Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834. [details]
original description (of Harmothoe (Antinoella) Augener, 1928) Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834.
page(s): 687, no figures; note: based on a specimen from Spitzbergen identified as Antinoe sarsi Kinberg [details]
original description (of Bylgia Théel, 1879) Théel, H.J. (1879). Les Annélides Polychètes des mers de la Nouvelle-Zemble. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar.</em> 16(3): 1-75, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33811612
page(s): 20-21 [details]
original description (of Antinoana Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458
page(s): 20-21 [details]
page(s): 37, 40.; note: The genus Bylgides was originally named Bylgia by Théel. However this name was preoccupied and so in this publication Chamberlin established the new name. [details]
original description (of Antinoella Augener, 1928) Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834. [details]
original description (of Harmothoe (Antinoella) Augener, 1928) Augener, H. 1928. Die Polychaeten von Spitzbergen. Fauna Arctica, Jena, 5: 647-834.
page(s): 687, no figures; note: based on a specimen from Spitzbergen identified as Antinoe sarsi Kinberg [details]
original description (of Bylgia Théel, 1879) Théel, H.J. (1879). Les Annélides Polychètes des mers de la Nouvelle-Zemble. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar.</em> 16(3): 1-75, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33811612
page(s): 20-21 [details]
original description (of Antinoana Hartman & Fauchald, 1971) Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458
page(s): 20-21 [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Revision of some species referred to Antinoe, Antinoella, Antinoana, Bylgides, and Harmothoe (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Harmothoinae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 545: 1-41., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5681
page(s): 3-4; note: diagnosis and key to species [details] Available for editors
[request]
identification resource Ogawa, Namy; Miranda, Vinícius Da Rocha; Rizzo, Alexandra E. (2025). New species of scale worms of the genus Bylgides (Annelida: Polynoidae) and Pholoe (Annelida: Sigalionidae) from the Brazilian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5719(2): 243-264., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5719.2.4
page(s): 245-246; note: Key to species [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 3-4; note: diagnosis and key to species [details] Available for editors
[request]identification resource Ogawa, Namy; Miranda, Vinícius Da Rocha; Rizzo, Alexandra E. (2025). New species of scale worms of the genus Bylgides (Annelida: Polynoidae) and Pholoe (Annelida: Sigalionidae) from the Brazilian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5719(2): 243-264., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5719.2.4
page(s): 245-246; note: Key to species [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender treated as feminine (eg Pettibone, 1993) [details]
