WoRMS name details
Sylline Grube, 1860
238338 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238338)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 accepted as Myrianida rubropunctata (Grube, 1860) (type by monotypy)
- Species Sylline flava Grube, 1868 (uncertain > nomen dubium, incerta sedis)
- Species Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 accepted as Myrianida rubropunctata (Grube, 1860) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 87, plate 3, figure 8; note: for Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 [details]
page(s): 87, plate 3, figure 8; note: for Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 [details]
Etymology Etymology of Sylline not known, maybe a variation of Syllis.
Status Sylline has been variously placed as a synonym of Proceraea (by Langerhans), Autolytus (eg San Martin, 2003), and Myrianida...
Etymology Etymology of Sylline not known, maybe a variation of Syllis. [details]
Status Sylline has been variously placed as a synonym of Proceraea (by Langerhans), Autolytus (eg San Martin, 2003), and Myrianida...
Status Sylline has been variously placed as a synonym of Proceraea (by Langerhans), Autolytus (eg San Martin, 2003), and Myrianida (by Nygren, 2004). All these are Autolytinae with Autolytus now a synonym of Myrianida. Nygren examined a specimen of Sylline rubropunctata he had located and considered was a Grube syntype and he placed it a new combination in Myranida. Thus Grube's taxon type species continues as a valid name. The use of Grube's Sylline by Claparède for an exoginin species, as Sylline brevipes, is an error, but unfortunately has been perpetuated with the addition of other usages under Exogone (Sylline) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Sylline Grube, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=238338 on 2026-01-17
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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): 87, plate 3, figure 8; note: for Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 [details]
page(s): 87, plate 3, figure 8; note: for Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 [details]
Taxonomy
status 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): 165 [footnote]; note: suggests that Sylline rubropunctata could represent a poorly preserved Proceraea [details]
status source Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 115; note: treated by Nygren as a Myrianida synonym. Others have placed it in Autolytus (eg San Martin, 2003) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 165 [footnote]; note: suggests that Sylline rubropunctata could represent a poorly preserved Proceraea [details]
status source Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 115; note: treated by Nygren as a Myrianida synonym. Others have placed it in Autolytus (eg San Martin, 2003) [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Etymology of Sylline not known, maybe a variation of Syllis. [details]Status Sylline has been variously placed as a synonym of Proceraea (by Langerhans), Autolytus (eg San Martin, 2003), and Myrianida (by Nygren, 2004). All these are Autolytinae with Autolytus now a synonym of Myrianida. Nygren examined a specimen of Sylline rubropunctata he had located and considered was a Grube syntype and he placed it a new combination in Myranida. Thus Grube's taxon type species continues as a valid name. The use of Grube's Sylline by Claparède for an exoginin species, as Sylline brevipes, is an error, but unfortunately has been perpetuated with the addition of other usages under Exogone (Sylline) [details]
