WoRMS taxon details
Melinna cristata (M. Sars, 1851)
AphiaID: 129804
AphiaID: 129804
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Ampharetidae (Family) > Melinninae (Subfamily) > Melinna (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Melinna | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Sabellides cristata Sars, 1851 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(1): 51-110. [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: 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: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [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: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Fauchald, K., A. Granados-Barba, and V. Solís-Weiss. 2009. Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] redescription: Jirkov, I.A. 2001. [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Moskva, Yanus-K, 1-632, available online at http://hydro.bio.msu.ru/Personal/Jirkov.htm [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Sars, M. (1856). Nye Annelider. Fauna littoralis Norvegiae 2. 1-24. Fredrik D. Beyer. Bergen. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Melinna cristata australis Hartmann-Schröder, 1965 Subspecies Melinna cristata heterodonta Moore, 1923 accepted as Melinna heterodonta Moore, 1923 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Trinidad and Tobago [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtype | deposit feeder: surface [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Melinnacheres ergasiloides Sars M., 1870 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (87 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary; Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait); Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Taxonomy: Subfamily: Melinninae, according to Trott (2004). [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129804 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Melinna cristata (M. Sars, 1851). 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=129804 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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