Species Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Year
Abderos minotaurus		Antarctic Atlantic	2013
Adercodon pleijeli		Northeast Atlantic and th	1994
Alkmaria romijni		Northeast Atlantic and th	1919
Amage adspersa		Mediterranean	1863
Amage anops		Northeast Pacific
Amage arieticornuta		Northeast Pacific
Amage auricula		Arctic and Northeast Atla	1866
Amage delus		Eastern Pacific	1919
Amage gallasii		Mediterranean Sea.	1875
Amage giacomobovei		Mediterranean Sea.	2021
Amage micropaleata		Antarctic Atlantic	2013
Amage perfecta		Antarctic Atlantic
Amage sculpta		Antarctic Atlantic and An	1908
Amage septemdecima		Southwest Atlantic	2013
Amage tumida		Western Central Atlantic	1887
Amathys lutzi		Atlantic Ocean.	1996
Amelinna abyssalis		Atlantic Ocean.
Ampharana antarctica		Atlantic Ocean.
Ampharete acutifrons		Arctic, Northern Atlantic	1860
Ampharete americana		Arctic, Northern Atlantic
Ampharete arctica		Pacific Ocean, Arctic and
Ampharete baltica		Arctic, Northeast Atlanti	1955
Ampharete borealis		Arctic and Northern Atlan	1856
Ampharete brevibranchiata		Arctic and Northern Atlan
Ampharete crassiseta		Arctic	1929
Ampharete eupalea		Arctic and Northeast Paci
Ampharete falcata		Arctic and North Atlantic	1955
Ampharete finmarchica		Arctic, Atlantic, Mediter	1864
Ampharete goesi		Arctic, Northern Atlantic	1866
Ampharete grubei		Northeast Atlantic
Ampharete homa		Eastern Pacific	1919
Ampharete johanseni		Arctic
Ampharete kerguelensis		Pacific Ocean and the Ant	1885
Ampharete labrops		Eastern Pacific	1961
Ampharete longipaleolata		Eastern Pacific
Ampharete macrobranchia		Western Central Pacific	1944
Ampharete octocirrata		Arctic, Atlantic, the Med	1835
Ampharete oculicirrata		Arctic, Atlantic, the Med	2019
Ampharete parvidentata		Western Central Atlantic	1973
Ampharete petersenae		North Atlantic	1997
Ampharete reducta		Arctic
Ampharete sombreriana		Western Central Atlantic	1885
Ampharete trilobata		North Western Atlantic.	1887
Ampharete vega		Arctic, Northeast Pacific
Ampharete villenai		Northeast Atlantic	2012
Amphicteis alaskensis		Northeast Atlantic
Amphicteis glabra		Eastern Pacific	1905
Amphicteis gunneri	Gunner's amphatretid worm	Cosmopolitan.	1835
Amphicteis hwanghaiensis		Cosmopolitan.	2020
Amphicteis mederi		Arctic	1929
Amphicteis midas		Northeast Atlantic and th	1855
Amphicteis mucronata		Eastern Pacific	1923
Amphicteis ninonae		Arctic	1985
Amphicteis obscurior		Eastern Pacific	1919
Amphicteis orphnius		Eastern Pacific	1919
Amphicteis philippinarum		Western Pacific	1878
Amphicteis posterobranchiata		Indian Ocean	1932
Amphicteis sargassoensis		Indian Ocean
Amphicteis scaphobranchiata		Pacific Ocean and Western	1906
Amphicteis scophrobranchiata		Northwest Pacific	1906
Amphicteis sundevalli		Arctic and Northern Atlan
Amphicteis uncopalea		Eastern Pacific	1919
Amphicteis vestis		Eastern Pacific
Amphicteis wyvillei		Antarctic Indian Ocean	1885
Amphisamytha bioculata		Antarctic Indian Ocean
Amphisamytha fauchaldi		Eastern Pacific	1994
Amphisamytha galapagensis		Pacific Ocean.	1983
Amphisamytha japonica		Northwest Pacific	1917
Amphisamytha lutzi		Northwest Pacific	1996
Amythas lutzi		Northeast Atlantic.	1996
Amythas membranifera		Northeast Atlantic.
Amythasides macroglossus		Northeast Atlantic.	1955
Anobothrus antarctica		Northeast Atlantic.	1939
Anobothrus auriculatus		Northeast Atlantic.	2020
Anobothrus bimaculatus		Eastern Pacific	1972
Anobothrus gracilis		Arctic, Northern Pacific	1865
Anobothrus jirkovi		Arctic, Northern Pacific	2020
Anobothrus konstantini		Arctic, Northern Pacific	2022
Anobothrus laubieri		Arctic and Northeast Atla	1978
Anobothrus mancus		Eastern Pacific	1972
Anobothrus nasuta		Western Central Atlantic	1887
Anobothrus occidentalis		Western Central Atlantic
Anobothrus paleaodiscus		Antarctic Atlantic	2013
Anobothrus patagonicus		Antarctic	1866
Anobothrus sonne		Antarctic	2020
Asabellides lineata		Eastern Pacific	1943
Asabellides littoralis		Eastern Pacific
Asabellides oculata		Western Central Atlantic
Asabellides sibirica		Arctic, Northern Pacific
Auchenoplax crinita		Western Central Atlantic,	1887
Auchenoplax rullieri		Western Central Pacific.	1986
Decemuncigera apalea		Western Central Atlantic	1982
Ecamphicteis elongata		Eastern Pacific	1972
Eclysippe trilobata		Eastern Pacific	1969
Egamella bipinnata		Eastern Pacific	1977
Egamella Isolda		Eastern Pacific	1858
Egamella pulchella		Eastern Pacific	1858
Egamella quadribranchiata		Eastern Pacific	1972
Endecamera palea		Western Central Atlantic	1982
Eusamytha pacifica		Western Central Atlantic
Eusamythella sexdentata		Antarctic Indian Ocean	1967
Glyphanostomum pallescens		Arctic, Northern Pacific,	1879
Gnathampharete paradoxa		Eastern Central Atlantic.	1978
Grubianella antarctica		Antarctic Indian Ocean	1885
Grubianella klugei		Arctic	1964
Hobsonia florida		North Western Atlantic.	1951
Hypania invalida		Ponto-Caspian Region and	1860
Hypaniola floridana		Western Central Atlantic	1951
Hypaniola kowalewskii		Mediterranean Sea.	1927
Isolda albula		Indo-West Pacific.	1971
Isolda heterobranchiata		Western Indian Ocean	1949
Isolda pulchella		Indo-West Pacific, Wester	1858
Lysippe annectens		Western Central Atlantic	1923
Lysippe exilia		Eastern Pacific	1972
Lysippe heterodonta		Eastern Pacific	1923
Lysippe labiata		Arctic, Northeast Pacific	1866
Lysippe Melinna		Eastern Pacific	1866
Lysippe oculata		Eastern Pacific	1969
Lysippe plana		Eastern Pacific	1972
Lysippe tentaculata		Eastern Pacific	1972
Lysippides fragilis		Eastern Pacific	1912
Melinantipoda antarctica		Eastern Pacific
Melinna aberrans		Eastern Indian Ocean.	1932
Melinna cristata		Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc	1851
Melinna denticulata		Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Oc
Melinna elisabethae		Arctic, Northeast Pacific
Melinna exilia		Arctic, Northeast Pacific
Melinna fauchaldi		Western Central Pacific	1968
Melinna heterodonta		Northeast Pacific
Melinna islandica		Northeast Pacific	1918
Melinna maculata		Western Central Atlantic	1879
Melinna marchadi		Eastern Central Atlantic.	1959
Melinna monoceroides		Mediterranean Sea.
Melinna oculata		Northeast Pacific
Melinna palmata		Arctic, Atlantic Ocean, M	1870
Melinna parumdentata		Western Central Atlantic	1887
Melinna profunda		Western Central Atlantic	1906
Melinnampharete eoa		Western Central Atlantic
Melinnampharete gracilis		Eastern Pacific	1969
Melinnata americana		Eastern Pacific
Melinnexis moorei		Eastern Pacific	1960
Melinnoides nelsoni		Eastern Pacific
Melinnopsides capensis		Eastern Pacific
Melinnopsis annenkovae		Arctic	1952
Melinnopsis arctica		Northeast Atlantic and th	1931
Melinnopsis atlantica		Northeast Atlantic and th
Mexamage corrugata		Eastern Pacific	1972
Moyanus explorans		Eastern Pacific
Mugga wahrbergi		Eastern Pacific	1955
Muggoides cinctus		Eastern Pacific
Neopaiwa cirrata		Eastern Pacific
Neosabellides elongatus		Antarctic Atlantic	1912
Neosabellides oceanica		Antarctic Atlantic
Neosamytha gracilis		Southeast Pacific and Ant	1967
Noanelia hartmanae		Northeast Atlantic	1977
Noanelia orensanzi		Antarctic Atlantic	2013
Oeorpata armata		Antarctic Atlantic
Pabits deroderus		Antarctic Atlantic
Paiwa abyssi		Antarctic Atlantic
Paramage madurensis		Antarctic Atlantic
Paramage scutata		Eastern Pacific	1923
Paramphicteis angustifolia		Northwest Pacific	1878
Phyllocomus crocea		Antarctic	1877
Pseudoampharete tentaculata		Eastern Pacific	1960
Pterolysippe bipennata		Eastern Pacific
Pterolysippe vanelli		Eastern Pacific, Arctic a	1955
Sabellides capensis		Eastern Pacific, Arctic a
Sabellides manriquei		Eastern Pacific	1996
Sabellides oculata		Western Central Atlantic	1879
Sabellides sibirica		Western Central Atlantic	1883
Samytha californiensis		Northeast Pacific
Samytha gurjanovae		Northwest Pacific	1950
Samytha sexcirrata		Eastern Pacific
Samythella eliasoni		Eastern Pacific
Samythella elongata		Arctic	1873
Samythella neglecta		Arctic and Northwest Atla	1912
Samythopsis grubei		Western Indian Ocean	1885
Schistocomus hiltoni		Northern Pacific.
Sosane bathyalis		Arctic	1986
Sosane occidentalis		Northeast Pacific
Sosane procera		Western Central Atlantic	1887
Sosane sulcata		Western Central Atlantic	1866
Sosanella apalea		Western Central Atlantic
Sosanides glandularis		Southeast Pacific
Sosanopsis kerguelensis		Antarctic Indian Ocean	1939
Sosanopsis wireni		Northeast Pacific	1917
Uschakovius enigmaticus		Northeast Atlantic and th	1973
Weddellia profunda		Northeast Atlantic and th
Ymerana pteropoda		Arctic	1986
Zatsepinia antarctica		Antarctic Atlantic	2013

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Species Identification: Find Species

Family: Ampharetidae (See list of species below)

Family: Ampharetidae

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