WoRMS taxon details
Priapulus caudatus Lamarck, 1816
AphiaID: 101160
AphiaID: 101160
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cephalorhyncha (Phylum) > Priapulida (Class) > Priapulidae (Family) > Priapulus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Priapulus Lamarck, 1816 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), 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: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Wesenberg-Lund, E. (1933). The collections of gephyreans in the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 9(6): 1-16 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Baltic sea [details] Barents Sea [details] Bliss Harbour [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Dunkerque [details] English Channel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Isle of Man [details] Isle of Wight [details] Jail Island [details] Lime Kiln Bay [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Scandinavia [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spitsbergen [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] White Sea [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (165 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2348 nucleotides; 87 proteins) To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Priapulida Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: feeds on other marine worms [details] Dimensions: upto 150 mm [details] Distribution: southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), downstream part of the St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary; Cobscook Bay [details] Distribution: circum-arctic [details] Habitat: coastal to deep sea [details] Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Morphology: white for recently molted [details] Morphology: colour is generally brownish with a distinct metallic iridescence [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate but not differentiated externally. and there is normally only one ovary or testis; eggs and sperm are released into the water where fertilization occurs. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101160 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van der Land, J.; Neuhaus, B. (2013). Priapulus caudatus Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101160 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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