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

Amage auricula Malmgren, 1866

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Amage*	Malmgren, 1866	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX.
basis of record	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.
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Jirkov, Igor A. (2023). On the Amagini (Annelida: Ampharetidae) of Moscow and St.-Petersburg collections with description of three new species. Invertebrate Zoology. 20(2): 180-204 [1 online table with supplementary data].
additional source	McIntosh, W.C. 1922. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta: Hermellidae to Sabellidae. London, Ray Society Vol. 4(1) pp.1-250.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
source of synonymy	Hessle, Christian. (1917). Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala. 5: 39-258, plates I-V.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Amage auricula Malmgren, 1866. 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:129771