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

Exogone (Exogone) torulosa (Claparède, 1864)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

note: From the examination of Fauvel's drawings the species may be ascribed to Exogone subg. Exogone.

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Exogone*	Örsted, 1845	accepted genus name
*Gossia*	Quatrefages, 1866	generic synonym
*Microsyllis*	Claparède, 1863	generic synonym
*Paedophylax*	Claparède, 1868	generic synonym
*Exagone*	Örsted, 1845	orthographic variant
*Exogona*	Örsted, 1845	orthographic variant
*Paedophyllax*	[auct. misspelling for 'Paedophylax']	orthographic variant
*Cystonereis*	Kölliker, 1846	synonym
*Exogone (Exogone)*	Örsted, 1845	synonym
*Exogone (Sylline)*	[ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ]	synonym
*Exotokas*	Ehlers, 1864	synonym
*Oophylax*	Ehlers, 1864	synonym
*Schmardia*	Quatrefages, 1866	synonym
*Spermosyllis*	Claparède, 1864	synonym
*Sylline*	[ sensu Claparède, 1864, non Grube, 1860 ]	misapplied name

Species group names

*Spermosyllis torulosa*	Claparède, 1864	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris. 5: 1-488.
additional source	Langerhans, Paul. (1879). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira [part I]. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 32(4): 513-592, plates XXXI-XXXIII.
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.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Exogone (Exogone) torulosa (Claparède, 1864). 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:195958