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

Syllis cornuta Rathke, 1843

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Syllis*	Lamarck, 1818	accepted genus name
*Aporosyllis*	Quatrefages, 1866	generic synonym
*Chaetosyllis*	Malmgren, 1867	generic synonym
*Ehlersia*	Quatrefages, 1866	generic synonym
*Gnathosyllis*	Schmarda, 1861	generic synonym
*Ioida*	Johnston, 1839	generic synonym
*Isosyllis*	Ehlers, 1864	generic synonym
*Langerhansia*	Czerniavsky, 1881	generic synonym
*Lycastis*	Savigny, 1822	generic synonym
*Trichosyllis*	Schmarda, 1861	generic synonym
*Typosyllis*	Langerhans, 1879	generic synonym
*Ioda*	[auctt.]	orthographic variant
*Ehlersia (Syllis)*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Langerhansia (Syllis)*	[lapsus for Syllis (Langerhansia)]	synonym
*Pagenstecheria*	Quatrefages, 1866	synonym
*Syllis (Ehlersia)*	Quatrefages, 1865	synonym
*Syllis (Langerhansia)*	Czerniavsky, 1881	synonym
*Syllis (Syllis)*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Syllis (Typosyllis)*	Langerhans, 1879	synonym
*Typosyllis (Ehlersia)*	Quatrefages, 1865	synonym
*Typosyllis (Langerhansia)*	Czerniavsky, 1881	synonym
*Typosyllis (Syllis)*	[auct.]	synonym
*Typosyllis (Typosyllis)*	Langerhans, 1879	synonym

Species group names

*Ehlersia (Syllis) cornuta*	(Rathke, 1843)	synonym
*Ehlersia cornuta*	(Rathke, 1843)	synonym
*Langerhansia cornuta*	(Rathke, 1843)	synonym
*Syllis (Ehlersia) cornuta*	Rathke, 1843	synonym
*Syllis (Langerhansia) cornuta*	Rathke, 1843	synonym
*Syllis (Typosyllis) cornuta*	Rathke, 1843	synonym
*Syllis fabricii*	Malmgren, 1867	synonym
*Typosyllis (Ehlersia) cornuta*	(Rathke, 1843)	synonym
*Typosyllis (Langerhansia) cornuta*	(Rathke, 1843)	synonym
*Typosyllis cornuta*	(Rathke, 1843)	synonym

Children

Syllis cornuta collingsii McIntosh, 1908

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ケナガシリス

Literature

original description	Rathke, H. (1843). Beiträge zur Fauna Norwegens. [Contributions to the Fauna of Norway]. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, Breslau & Bonn. 20: 1-264.
basis of record	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).
additional source	Pettibone, M. H. (1952). Checklist of Polychaeta of New England region. 1-32.
additional source	Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris. 5: 1-488.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
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	Cognetti Giuseppe. (1957). I Sillidi del golfo di Napoli. Publicazzioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. 30: 1-100.
additional source	Langerhans, Paul. (1879). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira [part I]. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 32(4): 513-592, plates XXXI-XXXIII.
source of synonymy	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
source of synonymy	Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 227(1): 1-356.
redescription	Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Syllis cornuta Rathke, 1843. 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:157583