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

Prosphaerosyllis brevicirra (Hartmann-Schröder, 1960)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prosphaerosyllis*	San Martín, 1984	accepted genus name
*Sphaerosyllis (Prosphaerosyllis)*	San Martín, 1984	synonym

Species group names

*Sphaerosyllis (Prosphaerosyllis) brevicirra*	Hartmann-Schröder, 1960	synonym
*Sphaerosyllis brevicirra*	Hartmann-Schröder, 1960	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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	Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama. (1977). Polychaete cryptofauna from rims of similar intertidal vermetid reefs on the Mediterranean coast of Israel and in the Gulf of Elat: Exogoninae and Autolytinae (Polychaeta Errantia: Syllidae). Israel Journal of Zoology. 26: 59-99.
additional source	Alós MC (1989) Adiciones a la fauna de Anélidos Poliquetos de la Península Ibérica: familia Syllidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 30: 329-337

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Prosphaerosyllis brevicirra (Hartmann-Schröder, 1960). 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:195977