WoRMS taxon details
Paraehlersia San Martín, 2003
195971 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:195971)
accepted
Genus
Ehlersia ferrugina Langerhans, 1881 accepted as Paraehlersia ferrugina (Langerhans, 1881) (type by original designation)
- Species Paraehlersia articulata (Kudenov & Harris, 1995)
- Species Paraehlersia dionisi (Núñez & San Martín, 1991)
- Species Paraehlersia ehlersiaeformis (Augener, 1913)
- Species Paraehlersia ferrugina (Langerhans, 1881)
- Species Paraehlersia kawesqar Soto & San Martín, 2018
- Species Paraehlersia knysnaensis Samoilova, Simon, San Martín & Martin , 2026
- Species Paraehlersia longichaetosa Fukuda, Centurión, Nogueira & San Martín, 2012
- Species Paraehlersia martapolae Fukuda, Centurión, Nogueira & San Martín, 2012
- Species Paraehlersia pamelae Prado & San Martín, 2024
- Species Paraehlersia weissmannioides (Augener, 1913)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
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]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Paraehlersia San Martín, 2003. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=195971 on 2026-01-28
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Nomenclature
original description
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]
Identification resource
identification resource
Prado, Ainhoa; San Martín, Guillermo. (2024). Syllidae (Annelida) from the Alborán Sea (Western Mediterranean), with the description of a new species of Paraehlersia San Martín, 2003. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5437(1): 87-104., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5437.1.5
page(s): 101; note: key to species of the genus [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 101; note: key to species of the genus [details] Available for editors
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additional source
San Martín, G.; López, E.; Aguado, M.T. 2009. Revision of the genus <i>Pionosyllis</i> (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Eusyllinae), with a cladistic analysis, and the description of five new genera and two new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89(7): 1455-1498
page(s): 1476-1478 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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]
page(s): 1476-1478 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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
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Diagnosis Paraehlersia (after San Martín & Aguado, 2022): Dorsal ciliary bands on segments. Palps basally fused. Antennae, tentacular cirri, and anterior dorsal cirri wrinkled or irregularly articulated depending on body size; other dorsal cirri smooth. Pharyngeal tooth positioned anteriorly. Parapodia with digitiform, retractile papilla between parapodial lobe and dorsal cirrus. Compound chaetae including one or more with spiniger-like blades and several with bidentate falcigerous blades with both teeth similar in anterior segments and proximal tooth usually longer and robust than distal tooth, marked depending on the species. Aciculae acuminate. Reproduction by epigamy. [details]Grammatical gender Paraehlersia must be feminine in accord with Ehlersia (although named after a male Ehlersia is formed to be feminine). The Paraehlersia type species and two other members have feminine adjectival species-group names. [details]
