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Arenicola cristata Stimpson, 1856 
AphiaID: 129866

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Arenicolidae (Family) > Arenicola (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Arenicola Lamarck, 1801
Synonymised
taxa
  Arenicola (Pteroscolex) antillensis Lütken, 1864 (subjective synonym)
Arenicola bombayensis Kewalramani, Wagh & Ranade, 1959
Sources  original description: Stimpson, W. 1856. On some remarkable marine Invertebrates inhabiting the shores of South Carolina. Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History, 5: 110-117. [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: Ashworth, James Hartley 1912. Catalogue of the Chaetopoda in the British Museum. A. Polychaeta: Part 1. Arenicolidae. 1-175. British Museum of Natural History. London. [details]

basis of record: Chhapgar, B. F. and Sane, S. R. 2001. Taxonomic status of the Bombay lugworm, Arenicola (Annelida: Polychaeta). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 98(2): 306-308. [details]

additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

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

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

original description (from synonym): Kewalramani, H. G., Wagh, P. V., and Ramade, M. R. 1960. Taxonomy of the lugworm found off Bombay. Journal of the Zoological Society of India, 11(2): 109-115. [details] [view taxon]

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Subspecies Arenicola cristata brasiliensis Nonato, 1958 accepted as Arenicola brasiliensis Nonato, 1958
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Specimen  Unknown type , locality South Carolina (Atlantic Ocean) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (133 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129866
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Arenicola cristata Stimpson, 1856. 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=129866 on 2013-06-20
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