WoRMS name details
Parasyllidea Pettibone, 1961
325052 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325052)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
Parasyllidea humesi Pettibone, 1961 accepted as Oxydromus humesi (Pettibone, 1961) (type by original designation)
- Species Parasyllidea australiensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1980
- Species Parasyllidea delicata Schüller, 2008 (uncertain > nomen dubium, unavailable as unpublished?)
- Species Parasyllidea blacki (Knox, 1960) accepted as Oxydromus blacki (Knox, 1960) (superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Parasyllidea humesi Pettibone, 1961 accepted as Oxydromus humesi (Pettibone, 1961) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pettibone, Marian H. 1961. New species of polychaete worms from the Atlantic Ocean, with a revision of the Dorvilleidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 74: 167-186., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34571297
page(s): 173 [details]
page(s): 173 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Parasyllidea Pettibone, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325052 on 2026-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Pettibone, Marian H. 1961. New species of polychaete worms from the Atlantic Ocean, with a revision of the Dorvilleidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 74: 167-186., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34571297
page(s): 173 [details]
page(s): 173 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Martin, Daniel; Nygren, Arne; Hjelmstedt, Per; Drake, Pilar; Gil, João;. (2015). On the enigmatic symbiotic polychaete ‘Parasyllidea' humesi Pettibone, 1961 (Hesionidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and behaviour. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174 (3): 429-446., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12249/full [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy An assertion of the generic re-assignment of P. blacki and P. australiensis is not available in the literature. However, Pleijel (1998) proposed that P. blacki could belong either to Ophiodromus [now Oxydromus] or to Parasyllidea. Martin et al 2015 placed Parasyllidea as a synonym of Oxydromus. [details]
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