WoRMS taxon details
Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887
AphiaID: 129251
AphiaID: 129251
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Cossuridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Cossura longocirrata Webser & Benedict, 1887 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cossuridae Day, 1963 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cossurella Hartman, 1976 (subjective synonymy) Heterocossura Wu & Chen, 1977 (subjective synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Read, G. B. 2000. Taxonomy and distribution of a new Cossura species (Annelida: Polychaeta: Cossuridae) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 113(4): 1096-1110. [details] basis of record: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, 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. 214-231 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] from synonym: Hartman, O. 1974 [1976]. Polychaetous annelids of the Indian Ocean including an account of species collected by members of the International Indian Ocean Expeditions, 1963-1964 and a catalogue and bibliography of the species from India. Journal of Marine Biological Association of India 16(1): 191-252. page(s): 234 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gardiner, Stephen L. and Wilson, Herbert, Jr. 1979. New records of polychaete annelids from North Carolina with the description of a new species of Sphaerosyllis (Syllidae). Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 93(4): 159-172. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Wu, Bao Ling and Chen, Mu 1977. [Heterocossura, a new genus of the Cossuridae (Polychaeta: sedentaria)]. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 23(1): 97-101. page(s): 100 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Cossura abyssalis Hartman, 1967 Species Cossura aciculata (Wu & Chen, 1977) Species Cossura alba Hartman, 1967 Species Cossura bansei Hilbig in Blake, Hilbig & Scott, 1996 Species Cossura brunnea Fauchald, 1972 Species Cossura candida Hartman, 1955 Species Cossura chilensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1965 Species Cossura coasta Kitamori, 1960 Species Cossura consimilis Read, 2000 Species Cossura dayi Hartman, 1976 Species Cossura delta Reish, 1958 Species Cossura dimorpha (Hartman, 1976) Species Cossura ginesi Liñero-Arana & Díaz-Díaz, 2010 Species Cossura heterochaeta Orensanz, 1976 Species Cossura laeviseta Hartmann-Schröder, 1962 Species Cossura longocirrata Webser & Benedict, 1887 Species Cossura modica Fauchald & Hancock, 1981 Species Cossura pettiboneae (Ewing, 1987) Species Cossura pseudakaina (Ewing, 1987) Species Cossura pygodactylata Jones, 1956 Species Cossura rostrata Fauchald, 1972 Species Cossura sima Fauchald, 1972 Species Cossura soyeri Laubier, 1964 Species Cossura lepida Tamai, 1986 accepted as Cossura pygodactylata Jones, 1956 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129251 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129251 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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