Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Syllidae > Subfamily Autolytinae > Tribe Procerini > Genus Proceraea

Proceraea aurantiaca Claparède, 1868

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Proceraea*	Ehlers, 1864	accepted genus name
*Pterautolytus*	Ehlers, 1907	generic synonym
*Amytis*	Savigny, 1822	synonym
*Autolytus (Regulatus)*	Imajima, 1966	synonym
*Autolytus (Stephanosyllis)*	Claparède, 1864	synonym
*Nereisyllis*	Blainville, 1828	synonym
*Polybostrichus*	Örsted, 1842	synonym
*Polynice*	Savigny, 1822	synonym
*Regulatus*	Imajima, 1966	synonym
*Stephanosyllis*	Claparède, 1864	synonym

Species group names

*Autolytus aurantiacus*	(Claparède, 1868)	synonym

Literature

original description	Claparède, É. (1868). Les annélides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. 19(2): 313-584, plates I-XVI.
basis of record	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	de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
additional source	Çinar ME, Ergen Z & Benli HA (2003) Autolytinae and Exogoninae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from northern Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) with a checklist of species reported from the Levant Sea. Bull Mar Sci 72(3):741-767
source of synonymy	Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris. 5: 1-488.
redescription	Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). Zootaxa. 680: 1-314.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Proceraea aurantiaca Claparède, 1868. 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:131361