Galapagos Species Database
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Exogone breviantennata
Poliquetos, Polychaetes
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Order
Phyllodocida
Suborder
Nereidiformia
Family
Syllidae
Genus
Exogone
Species
breviantennata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Exogone (Exogone) breviantennata Hartmann-Schröder, 1959, Exogone occidentalis Westheide, 1974 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Japan, Galapagos Islands (Santa Cruz -Academy Bay). Florida, Cuba, Belize, EI Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, Canary Islands, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Red Sea, Seychelles (Böggemann & Westheide, 2004)
- Böggemann, M. Westheide, W. (2004) Interstitial Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Mahé (Seychelles). Journal of Natural History, 38:4, 403-446, DOI: 10.1080/0022293021000033229
- 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.
- Westheide, W. (1991) The meiofauna of the Galápagos: a review. In: M.J. James (ed.): Galápagos marine invertebrates. Taxonomy, biogeography, and evolution in Darwin´s islands. Plenum Press, New York and London, p. 37-73.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Exogone breviantennata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20201. Accessed 31 October 2026.