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Hypania invalida

Status not recordedworms

Hypania invalida is a species in the class Polychaeta.

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Quick facts about Hypania invalida

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Hypania invalida live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Hypania invalida as introduced in 10 countries, and flagged as invasive in 2 of them.

  1. Germanyinvasive
  2. United Kingdominvasive
  3. Austria
  4. Belarus
  5. Belgium
  6. Poland
  7. Russia
  8. Serbia
  9. Switzerland
  10. Ukraine

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Hypania invalida endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Hypania invalida classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumAnnelida
  3. classPolychaeta
  4. genusHypania
  5. SpeciesHypania invalida (Grube, 1860)

Synonyms Ampharete kawalewskii, Ampharete kowalewskii, Amphicteis invalida, Hypania invalida occidentalis, Phenacia oculata

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Hypania invalida

Other species in the same genus Hypania.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Hypania invalida an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags Hypania invalida as invasive in 2 countries: Germany and United Kingdom. It lists it as introduced in 10 in all.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Hypania invalida (Hypania invalida). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/hypania-invalida

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BibTeX
@misc{hypania_invalida_2026,
  title = {Hypania invalida (Hypania invalida)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/hypania-invalida},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}