Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Terebelliformia > Family Ampharetidae > Subfamily Amphicteinae

Hypania Ostroumoff, 1897

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Parhypania*	Annenkova, 1928	generic synonym

Children

Hypania antiqua (Ostroumoff, 1896)
Hypania brevispinis (Grube, 1860)
Hypania invalida (Grube, 1860)

Literature

original description	Ostroumoff, A. (1897). O gidrobiologicheskikh' izslelovaniyakh' b yst'yakh' yuzhno-russkikh' rek' b 1896 gody (predv. soobshch.). [ [Recherches hydrobiologiques dans les embouchures des fleuves de la Russie meridionale / Hydrobiological investigations in the mouths of the rivers of southern Russia. Preliminary communication]. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk (Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg),. (Series 5) 6: 343-362.
additional source	Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188.
additional source	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Hypania Ostroumoff, 1897. 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:129163