Species under Glycera
n= 38
Species name Common name Distribution Max. Length (cm)
Glycera abranchiata
Treadwell, 1901
Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Glycera africana
Arwidsson, 1899
Eastern Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean
Glycera alba
(Müller, 1776)
Northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Indo-West Pacific 7.5
Glycera americana
Leidy, 1855
American bloodworm Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic
Glycera branchiopoda
Moore, 1911
Eastern Pacific
Glycera brevicirris
Grube, 1870
Indo-Pacific and Western Atlantic
Glycera capitata
Ørsted, 1843
Arctic, Indo-Pacific, Northern Atlantic and the Antarctic Atlantic 15
Glycera celtica
O'Connor, 1987
Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea
Glycera chirori
Izuka, 1912
Northwest Pacific
Glycera cinnamomea
Grube, 1874
Indo-West Pacific
Glycera decipiens
(von Marenzeller, 1879)
Cheating glycerid worm Northwest Pacific
Glycera dibranchiata
Ehlers, 1868
Bloodworm Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Glycera gigantea
Quatrefages, 1866
Pacific Ocean, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Glycera guatemalensis
Böggemann & Fiege, 2001
Eastern Pacific
Glycera kerguelensis
McIntosh, 1885
Antarctic
Glycera lancadivae
Schmarda, 1861
Indo-West Pacific
Glycera lapidum
Quatrefages, 1865
Southwest Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Glycera longipinnis
Grube, 1878
Indo-West Pacific and Western Central Atlantic
Glycera macintoshi
Grube, 1877
Western Pacific
Glycera madagascariensis
Böggemann & Fiege, 2001
Indo-West Pacific
Glycera mimica
Hartman, 1965
Western Central Atlantic
Glycera nicobarica
Grube, 1868
Western Central Pacific
Glycera onomichiensis
Izuka, 1912
Western Pacific
Glycera oxycephala
Ehlers, 1887
Western Indian Ocean, Western Central Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea
Glycera papillosa
Grube, 1857
Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Glycera parashadi
Fauvel, 1932
Indo-West Pacific
Glycera posterobranchia
Hoagland, 1920
Western Central Pacific
Glycera profundi
Chamberlin, 1919
Eastern Pacific
Glycera prosobranchia
Böggemann & Fiegel, 2001
Eastern Pacific
Glycera robusta
Ehlers, 1868
Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Pacific
Glycera rouxi
Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833
Indo-Pacific, Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Glycera siphonostoma
(Delle Chiaje, 1822)
Pacific Ocean
Glycera sphyrabrancha
Schmarda, 1861
Indo-Pacific and Western Central Atlantic
Glycera subaenea
Grube, 1878
Northwest Pacific
Glycera tenuis
Hartman, 1944
Pacific Ocean
Glycera tesselata
Grube, 1863
Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean
Glycera tridactyla
Schmarda, 1861
Glycerine worm Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Indo-Pacific
Glycera unicornis
Savigny, 1818
Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean and Western Indian Ocean
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