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

Exogone lourei Berkeley & Berkeley, 1938

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

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

*Exogone (Exogone) lourei*	Berkeley & Berkeley, 1938	synonym

Literature

original description	Berkeley, E. and Berkeley, C. (1938). Notes on Polychaeta from the coast of western Canada. II. Syllidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 11, 1: 33-49.
additional source	Fukuda, Marcelo V.; Ribeiro, William M. G.; Rossi, Raphaela H. C.; Nogueira, João M. M. (2024). An overview of the occurrences of Exogone (Annelida, Syllidae) in Brazil, with the description of a new species. Ocean and Coastal Research. 72(suppl1): e24046: 1-19.
additional source	Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	San Martín, Guillermo; Lucas, Yolanda; Westheide, Wilfried. (2021). The hidden worms on the beach: interstitial Syllidae (Annelida) from the Indo-Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 134(1): 149-195.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Exogone lourei Berkeley & Berkeley, 1938. 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:327981