WoRMS name details
Cirratulus melanacanthus Grube, 1872
336515 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336515)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Grube, A.E. (1873). Die Familie der Cirratuliden. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur, Breslau.</em> 50: 59-66., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38491133 [details]
Type locality contained in Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Atlantic Ocean, Brazil
type locality contained in Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Brazil [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Cirratulus melanacanthus Grube, 1872. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336515 on 2025-05-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Grube, A.E. (1873). Die Familie der Cirratuliden. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur, Breslau.</em> 50: 59-66., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38491133 [details]
new combination reference Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
note: outdated recombination to Cirriformia [details] Available for editors
[request]
new combination reference Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
note: outdated recombination to Cirriformia [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Magalhães, Wagner F.; Seixas, Victor Corrêa; Paiva, Paulo Cesar; Elias, Rodolfo. (2014). The Multitentaculate Cirratulidae of the Genera Cirriformia and Timarete (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Shallow Waters of Brazil. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(11): e112727., available online at http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112727
page(s): 9; note: to Timarete caribous [details]
page(s): 9; note: to Timarete caribous [details]
Other
additional source
Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 155-156 [details]
page(s): 155-156 [details]




