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

Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1879

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Geminosyllis*	Imajima, 1966	synonym; nom. superfl.
*Haplosyllis (Syllis)*	[auct.]	synonym
*Syllis (Haplosyllis)*	Langerhans, 1879	synonym

Children

Haplosyllis carmenbritoae Lattig, San Martín & Martin, 2007
Haplosyllis chamaeleon Laubier, 1960
Haplosyllis granulosa (Lattig, San Martín & Martin, 2007)
Haplosyllis spongicola (Grube, 1855)
Haplosyllis spongiphila (Verrill, 1885)
Haplosyllis villogorgicola Martin, Núñez, Riera & Gil, 2000

Literature

additional source	Musco, Luigi; Giangrande, Adriana. (2005). Mediterranean Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) revisited: biogeography, diversity and species fidelity to environmental features. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 304: 143-153 + 4 pp. Supplementary appendix.
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	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.
redescription	Lattig P, G San Martín and D Martin (2007) Taxonomic and morphometric analyses of the Haplosyllis spongicola complex (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Spanish seas, with re-description of the type species and descriptions of two new species. Scientia Marina 71(3): 551-570
taxonomy source	Lattig, Patricia; Martin, Daniel. (2009). A taxonomic revision of the genus Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1887 (Polychaeta: Syllidae: Syllinae). Zootaxa. 2220: 1-40.
identification resource	Cepeda, Diego; Martin, Daniel; Britayev, Temir A.; Al-Aidaroos, Ali M.; Lattig, Patricia. (2017). Haplosyllis (Annelida: Syllidae) from Saudi Arabian Red Sea, with the description of a new endosymbiotic species and a dichotomous key for the Indo-Pacific species. Marine Biodiversity. 47(4): 1123-1129.
identification resource	Paresque, Karla; Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos. (2014). The genus Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from northeastern Brazil, with descriptions of two new species. Marine Biology Research. 10(6): 554-576.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Haplosyllis Langerhans, 1879. 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:129657