Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Pilargidae > Subfamily Pilarginae

Ancistrosyllis McIntosh, 1878

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ancistargis*	Jones, 1961	generic synonym
*Harpochaeta*	Korschelt, 1893	generic synonym

Children

Ancistrosyllis cingulata (Korschelt, 1893)
Ancistrosyllis fioronii Fiege & Böggemann, 1999
Ancistrosyllis groenlandica McIntosh, 1878
Ancistrosyllis hamata (Hartman, 1960)

Literature

original description	McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1878). On the Annelida obtained during the Cruise of H.M.S. ‘Valorous' to Davis Strait in 1875. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series: Zoology. 1(7): 499-511, plate LXV.
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix.
additional source	Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
identification resource	Plathong, Jintana; Dean, Harlan K.; Plathong, Sakanan. (2021). Four new species of Pilargidae (Annelida: Pilarginae) from the Gulf of Thailand. Zootaxa. 5071(4): 537-562.
identification resource	Fiege, Dieter.; Böggemann, Markus. (1999). Ancistrosyllis fioronii, a new species of Pilargidae from the North Sea, with a key and synoptic table of characters for all species of the genus Ancistrosyllis McIntosh 1879 (Annelida, Polychaeta, Pilargidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica. 78(1): 135-140.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Ancistrosyllis McIntosh, 1878. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129462