WoRMS taxon details
Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845
129659 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129659)
accepted
Genus
Autolytides Malaquin, 1893 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Autolytus Grube, 1850 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Autolytus (Autolytides) Malaquin, 1893 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Autolytus (Autolytus) Grube, 1850 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Crithida Gosse, 1855 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Diploceraea Grube, 1850 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Podenereis Blainville, 1818 · unaccepted (nomen oblitum)
Podonereis [auct. misspelling] · unaccepted (misspelling of Podenereis)
Sacconereis J. Müller, 1853 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Sylline Grube, 1860 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Myrianida antondohrni (Çinar & Gambi, 2005)
- Species Myrianida arborea (Westheide, 1974)
- Species Myrianida australiensis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1982)
- Species Myrianida brachycephala (Marenzeller, 1874)
- Species Myrianida brevicirrata (Winternitz, 1936)
- Species Myrianida brevipes (Hartmann-Schröder, 1959)
- Species Myrianida cognettii (Çinar & Gambi, 2005)
- Species Myrianida convoluta (Cognetti, 1953)
- Species Myrianida dentalia (Imajima, 1966)
- Species Myrianida edwarsi (Saint Joseph, 1887)
- Species Myrianida flava Nygren, 2004
- Species Myrianida gidholmi Nygren & Pleijel, 2007
- Species Myrianida hesperidium (Claparède, 1868)
- Species Myrianida inermis (Saint Joseph, 1887)
- Species Myrianida irregularis (Imajima & Hartman, 1964)
- Species Myrianida juventudensis (San Martín, 1994)
- Species Myrianida langerhansi (Gidholm, 1967)
- Species Myrianida longoprimicirrata (López, San Martín & Jiménez, 1997)
- Species Myrianida multidenticulata (Westheide, 1974)
- Species Myrianida pachycera (Augener, 1913)
- Species Myrianida paredesi Aguirre, San Martín & Álvarez-Campos, 2016
- Species Myrianida pentadentata (Imajima, 1966)
- Species Myrianida phyllocera Augener, 1918
- Species Myrianida pinnigera (Montagu, 1808)
- Species Myrianida profunda (San Martin, 2004)
- Species Myrianida prolifera (O.F. Müller, 1788)
- Species Myrianida puladilaw Álvarez-Campos, San Martín & Piotrowski, 2014
- Species Myrianida pulchella Day, 1953
- Species Myrianida quindecimdentata (Langerhans, 1884)
- Species Myrianida rangiroaensis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1992)
- Species Myrianida rodosensis Çinar, 2015
- Species Myrianida rubropunctata (Grube, 1860)
- Species Myrianida sanmartini Dietrich, Hager, Bönsch, Winkelmann, Schmidt & Nygren, 2015
- Species Myrianida spinoculata (Imajima, 1966)
- Species Myrianida tereseta Hoagland, 1920
- Species Myrianida tyrrhenica (Cognetti, 1953)
- Species Myrianida cirrata Treadwell, 1931 accepted as Proceraea cornuta (Agassiz, 1862)
- Species Myrianida crassicirrata Hartmann-Schröder, 1965 accepted as Myrianida pachycera (Augener, 1913) (subjective synonym)
- Species Myrianida fasciata Milne Edwards, 1845 accepted as Myrianida pinnigera (Montagu, 1808)
- Species Myrianida maculata Claparède, 1868 accepted as Myrianida pinnigera (Montagu, 1808)
- Species Myrianida mediterranea (Cognetti, 1953) accepted as Myrianida quindecimdentata (Langerhans, 1884) (superseded recombination of subjective synonym)
- Species Myrianida pachychera [auct.] accepted as Myrianida pachycera (Augener, 1913) (misspelling of 'pachycera')
- Species Myrianida picta (Ehlers, 1864) accepted as Proceraea picta Ehlers, 1864 (superseded recombination)
- Species Myrianida proceraeae Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1990 accepted as Planicirrata proceraeae (Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1990)
- Species Myrianida clavigera Schmarda, 1861 (uncertain > nomen dubium, not an Autolytinae)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Milne Edwards, Henri. (1845). Observations sur le développement des annélides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Série 3, Zoologie, 3: 145-182, plates 5-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13408583
page(s): 170 (footnote 3), 180, plate 11 figs. 65-68 [details]
page(s): 170 (footnote 3), 180, plate 11 figs. 65-68 [details]
Taxonomy The genus Myrianida Milne-Edwards, 1845 is a nomen protectum, according to Arcticle 23.9.1 of the ICZN (1999) (see Nygren,...
Taxonomy The genus Myrianida Milne-Edwards, 1845 is a nomen protectum, according to Arcticle 23.9.1 of the ICZN (1999) (see Nygren, 2004: 115). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129659 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Milne Edwards, Henri. (1845). Observations sur le développement des annélides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Série 3, Zoologie, 3: 145-182, plates 5-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13408583
page(s): 170 (footnote 3), 180, plate 11 figs. 65-68 [details]
original description (of Crithida Gosse, 1855) Gosse, Philip Henry 1855. Notes on some new or little known marine animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 2) 16:27-35, 305-312 (annelids 31-35, 308-312)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2263862
page(s): 308-309 [details]
original description (of Sacconereis J. Müller, 1853) Müller, J. (1853). Über die allgemeinen Plan in der Entwickelung der Echinodermen. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1852: 25-65, plates I-VIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29202882
page(s): 31 [details]
original description (of Autolytus Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 310 + unnumbered table facing page 281 [details]
original description (of Sylline Grube, 1860) Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 87, plate 3, figure 8; note: for Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 [details]
original description (of Diploceraea Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 312 + unnumbered plate facing page 281 [details]
original description (of Autolytides Malaquin, 1893) Malaquin, Alphonse. (1893). Recherches sur les Syllidiens. Morphologie, anatomie, reproduction, développement. <em>Mémoires de la Société des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille.</em> 4e Série, 18: 1-477, plates I-XIV., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.99327
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Podenereis Blainville, 1818) Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. <em>Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris.</em> 1818: 78-85., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4146409
page(s): 83 [details]
basis of record Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 170 (footnote 3), 180, plate 11 figs. 65-68 [details]
original description (of Crithida Gosse, 1855) Gosse, Philip Henry 1855. Notes on some new or little known marine animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 2) 16:27-35, 305-312 (annelids 31-35, 308-312)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2263862
page(s): 308-309 [details]
original description (of Sacconereis J. Müller, 1853) Müller, J. (1853). Über die allgemeinen Plan in der Entwickelung der Echinodermen. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1852: 25-65, plates I-VIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29202882
page(s): 31 [details]
original description (of Autolytus Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 310 + unnumbered table facing page 281 [details]
original description (of Sylline Grube, 1860) Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 87, plate 3, figure 8; note: for Sylline rubropunctata Grube, 1860 [details]
original description (of Diploceraea Grube, 1850) Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 312 + unnumbered plate facing page 281 [details]
original description (of Autolytides Malaquin, 1893) Malaquin, Alphonse. (1893). Recherches sur les Syllidiens. Morphologie, anatomie, reproduction, développement. <em>Mémoires de la Société des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille.</em> 4e Série, 18: 1-477, plates I-XIV., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.99327
page(s): 76 [details]
original description (of Podenereis Blainville, 1818) Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. <em>Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris.</em> 1818: 78-85., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4146409
page(s): 83 [details]
basis of record Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
redescription
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 15-118 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 15-118 [details] Available for editors

Identification resource
identification resource
Dietrich, Anna; Hager, Tatjana; Bönsch, Regine; Winkelmann, Charlotte; Schmidt, Andreas; Nygren, Arne. (2015). A new species of <i>Myrianida</i> (Autolytinae, Syllidae, Annelida) from the North Sea, with short notes on the distribution and habitat of Northeast Atlantic autolytines. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 11(8): 804-813., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2015.1016971
note: Keys to Autolytinae of W Europe and Mediterranean [details]
note: Keys to Autolytinae of W Europe and Mediterranean [details]
Other
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [details]




From editor or global species database
Taxonomy The genus Myrianida Milne-Edwards, 1845 is a nomen protectum, according to Arcticle 23.9.1 of the ICZN (1999) (see Nygren, 2004: 115). [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Autolytus) (from synonym Autolytus Grube, 1850)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Myrianida)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Autolytus Grube, 1850)
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits) (from synonym Autolytus Grube, 1850)
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 098076)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Myrianida)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Autolytus Grube, 1850)
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits) (from synonym Autolytus Grube, 1850)
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 098076)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Image from synonym