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

Autolytus emertoni Verrill, 1881

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted
note: The taxonomic position of this species within Autolytinae is ambiguous; thus, even tough the name Autolytus is considered a junior synonim of Myrianida, Nygren (2004) avoided to place it within one of the accepted genera retaining the traditional nomencla

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

MyrianidaMilne Edwards, 1845accepted genus name
Autolytides Malaquin, 1893 generic synonym
Autolytus (Autolytides) Malaquin, 1893 generic synonym
Autolytus (Autolytus) Grube, 1850 generic synonym
Crithida Gosse, 1855 generic synonym
Diploceraea Grube, 1850 generic synonym
Sacconereis J. Müller, 1853 generic synonym
Sylline Grube, 1860 generic synonym
Podonereis [auct. misspelling] orthographic variant
Autolytus Grube, 1850 synonym

Species group names

Autolytus groenlandicus Wesenberg-Lund, 1947 synonym

Literature

original description

Verrill, A.E. 1881. Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part 2. Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc. collected by the United States Fish Commission. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 22: 356-405.

basis of record

Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). Zootaxa. 680: 1-314.

additional source

Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.

additional source

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

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Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Autolytus emertoni Verrill, 1881. 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:157225

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Occurrence

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Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2008-03-26 by Kristian Fauchald

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