Galapagos Species Database

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Amblyosyllis granosa Ehlers, 1897

Poliquetos, Polychaetes

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Annelida

Class
Polychaeta

Order
Phyllodocida

Suborder
Nereidiformia

Family
Syllidae

Genus
Amblyosyllis

Species
granosa

Taxon category: Accepted

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: New Zeland and North Atlantic Ocean (Horton et al., 2021) Australia, Kerguelen, Panamá, Galapagos Islands (Aguado et al., 2019)

References

  • Aguado, M. T. Capa, M., Lago-Barcia, D., Gil, J., Pleijel, F., & Nygren, A. (2019) Species delimitation in Amblyosyllis (Annelida, Syllidae) Aguado, M. T., Capa, M., Lago-Barcia, D., Gil, J., Pleijel, F., & Nygren, A. (2019). Species delimitation in Amblyosyllis (Annelida, Syllidae). In PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 4). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214211
  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Amblyosyllis granosa", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=15169. Accessed 1 November 2026.