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Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 129840

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Aphroditidae (Family) > Aphrodita (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758
Parent Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Aphrodita borealis Johnston, 1840 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita elliptica versicolor Hill in McIntosh, 1900
Aphrodita nitens Linnaeus, 1746 in Johnston, 1865 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita subrotunda Hill, 1752 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodite aculeata (Linnaeus, 1761) (lapsus calami)
Aphroditella pallida Roule, 1898 (subjective synonym)
Eruca echinata Barrelier in Claparède, 1868 (subjective synonym)
Halithea aurata Risso, 1826 (subjective synonym)
Halithea sericea Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (subjective synonym)
Hystrix marina Redi in Claparède, 1868 (subjective synonym)
Milnesia nuda Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Mus marinus Linnaeus in MciIntosh, 1900 (subjective synonym)
Vermis aureus Jacobeus in Claparède, 1868 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 655 [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]

basis of record: Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]. [details]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. 1923. Polychètes errantes. Faune de France Volume 5. 1-488. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/  [details]

basis of record: Johnston, George. 1865. A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement], available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291 [details]

basis of record: McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A monograph of British Annelids. vol.1. pt.2. Polychaeta Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. Ray Society of London, 1(l2): 215-442. [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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]

redescription: Imajima, Minoru 2003. Polychaetous Annelids from Sagami Bay and Sagami Sea collected by the Emperor Showa of Japan and deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo (II), Orders included within the Phyllodocida, Amphinomida, Spintherida and Enicida. National Science Museum Monographs, 23: 1-221 [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: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Johnston, George 1840. Miscellanea Zoologica British Annelids. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 1, 4: 368-375, plates10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3386311 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hill, John. 1752. An history of animals: containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes and insects, of the several parts of the world, and including accounts of the several classes of animalcules, visible only by the assistance of microscopes. London, Thomas Osborne. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Roule, Louis 1898. Notice preliminaire sur les especes d'annelides recueillies dans les explorations sous-marines du Travailleur et du Talisman. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Ser. 1, 4: 190-195. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Claparède, Édouard 1868. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 19(2): 313-584. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Risso, A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Paris: F.G. Levrault. Vol. 4: IV, 1-439, 12 pls. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Quatrefages, Armand de. 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 1. 1-588. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. [some vol.2 species are also linked here but see also source 51472]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Czech afroditka plstnatá  [details]
Czech mořská housenka  [details]
Dutch fluwelen zeemuis  [details]
Dutch zeemuis (from synonym)  [details]
English sea mouse  [details]
Finnish merihiiri  [details]
French aphrodite  [details]
German Filzwurm  [details]
German Seemaus  [details]
Polish afrodyta tęczowa  [details]
Polish mysz morska  [details]
Polish złotorunka  [details]
Portuguese rato-do-mar  [details]
Spanish afrodita  [details]
Spanish ratón de mar  [details]
Spanish topo de mar  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Baie de la Seine [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belte [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
De Haan (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
De Panne (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kattegat [details]
Koksijde (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Lombardsijde [details]
Nieuwpoort (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostduinkerke (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Öresund [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Roscoff [details]
Skagerrak [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Zeeland [details]
Feedingtype  carnivore [details]
Links BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (208 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Images 
Sea-mouse - Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758
Sea-mouse - Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758
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Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758
Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758
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Fluwelen zeemuis
Fluwelen zeemuis
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Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1761
Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1761
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Fluwelen zeemuis
Fluwelen zeemuis
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Fluwelen zeemuis
Fluwelen zeemuis
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Aphrodita aculeata
Aphrodita aculeata
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Linnaeus 1758 description of Aphrodita
Linnaeus 1758 description of Aphrodita
added on 2013-01-15 - author: Read, Geoffrey
qualitystatus: checked by Read, Geoffrey on 2013-01-15 21:56:59
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129840
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2007-01-22 09:31:04Z  checked  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758. 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=129840 on 2013-05-22
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