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Dipolydora Verrill, 1881 
AphiaID: 129611

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Polydora concharum Verrill, 1880 (type by original designation)
Parent Spionidae Grube, 1850
Sources  original description: Verrill, A.E. 1881. New England Annelida. Part I. Historical sketch, with annotated lists of the species hitherto recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 4: 285-324., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7476851
page(s): 320 [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]

status source: Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara
page(s): 181 [details]


Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Dipolydora aciculata (Blake & Kudenov, 1978)
Species Dipolydora akaina Blake in Blake, Hilbig & Scott, 1996
Species Dipolydora alborectalis (Radashevsky, 1993)
Species Dipolydora anatentaculata Delgado-Blas, 2008
Species Dipolydora antonbruunae (Blake, 1983)
Species Dipolydora armata (Langerhans, 1880)
Species Dipolydora barbilla (Blake, 1981)
Species Dipolydora bidentata (Zachs, 1933)
Species Dipolydora bifurcata (Blake, 1981)
Species Dipolydora blakei (Maciolek, 1984)
Species Dipolydora capensis (Day, 1955)
Species Dipolydora cardalia (Berkeley, 1927)
Species Dipolydora caulleryi (Mesnil, 1897)
Species Dipolydora coeca (Örsted, 1843)
Species Dipolydora commensalis (Andrews, 1891)
Species Dipolydora concharum (Verrill, 1880)
Species Dipolydora contoyensis Delgado-Blas, 2008
Species Dipolydora elegantissima (Blake & Woodwick, 1972)
Species Dipolydora flava (Claparède, 1870)
Species Dipolydora giardi (Mesnil, 1896)
Species Dipolydora goreensis (Augener, 1918)
Species Dipolydora hartmanae (Blake, 1971)
Species Dipolydora huelma Sato-Okoshi & Okoshi, 2000
Species Dipolydora langerhansi (Mesnil, 1896)
Species Dipolydora magellanica (Blake, 1983)
Species Dipolydora melanopalapa Manchenko & Radashevsky, 2002
Species Dipolydora melanopalpa Manchenko & Radashevsky, 2002
Species Dipolydora normalis (Day, 1957)
Species Dipolydora notialis (Blake & Kudenov, 1978)
Species Dipolydora peristomialis (Hartman, 1976)
Species Dipolydora pilikia (Ward, 1981)
Species Dipolydora pilocollaris (Blake & Kudenov, 1978)
Species Dipolydora protuberata (Blake & Kudenov, 1978)
Species Dipolydora quadrilobata (Jacobi, 1883)
Species Dipolydora saintjosephi (Eliason, 1920)
Species Dipolydora socialis (Schmarda, 1861)
Species Dipolydora tentaculata (Blake & Kudenov, 1978)
Species Dipolydora tetrabranchia (Hartman, 1945)
Species Dipolydora tridenticulata (Woodwick, 1964)
Species Dipolydora trilobata (Radashevsky, 1993)
Species Dipolydora vulcanica (Radashevsky, 1994)

Species Dipolydora rogeri (Martin, 1996) accepted as Dipolydora armata (Langerhans, 1880)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Link To GenBank
Notes  Date of publication: Dipolydora was not published until 1881. Although Blake (1996:181) gives the date as 1879, Dipolydora is not mentioned in the 1879 (probably published 1880) paper he cites. [details]

Synonymy: Dipolydora is listed as an invalid synonym of Polydora in Fauchald (1977). Resurrected by Blake (1996) to contain a group of Polydora with hooded hooks with shafts without constriction and with notochaetae on chaetiger 1, thus subdividing the large genus Polydora. [details]

Taxonomy: Dipolydora was introduced by Verrill (1881:320 in a footnote) for his Polydora concharum. The stated differences from Polydora are not significant today, apart from the comments on the pygidium. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129611
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-08-01 22:28:40Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Dipolydora Verrill, 1881. 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=129611 on 2013-06-19
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