WoRMS taxon details

Dinophilus vorticoides Schmidt, 1848

130002  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130002)

accepted
Species
Dinophilus caudatus Levinsen, 1880 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Dinophilus metameroides Hallez, 1879 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Spiroclytus capitata (Ørsted, 1844) Diesing, 1862 · unaccepted (Graff (1882) no longer considers...)  
Graff (1882) no longer considers the species a flatworm, and synonymizes it with Dinophilus vorticoides.
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Schmidt, Eduard Oscar. (1848). Neue Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Würmer gesammelt auf einer Reise nach den Färör im Frühjahr 1848 [New contributions to the natural history of worms collected on a journey to the Faerör in the spring of 1848]. <em>[Booklet].</em> 44 pp., plates I-III, Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Maue, Jena., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=0as-AAAAcAAJ
page(s): 3-8, plate I figs. 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, A, B, C [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Holotype , geounit Faroe Islands  
Holotype, geounit Faroe Islands [details]
Note Thorshavner [= Tórshavn] Bay, Faroe Islands,...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Thorshavner [= Tórshavn] Bay, Faroe Islands, NE Atlantic Ocean [gazetteer estimate 62.0073°, -6.7684°], in shore or shallow water sheltered from waves, under the windows of Governor Lunddahl ["unter den Fenstern des Herrn Landvogt Lunddahl"; assumed to be in Tinganes Peninsula, where many of the Faroese government buildings have been traditionally located], on the surface of stones, where they could be found in clusters of thirty to fifty specimens.  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Dinophilus vorticoides Schmidt, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130002 on 2024-03-19
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original description Schmidt, Eduard Oscar. (1848). Neue Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Würmer gesammelt auf einer Reise nach den Färör im Frühjahr 1848 [New contributions to the natural history of worms collected on a journey to the Faerör in the spring of 1848]. <em>[Booklet].</em> 44 pp., plates I-III, Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Maue, Jena., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=0as-AAAAcAAJ
page(s): 3-8, plate I figs. 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, A, B, C [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Vortex capitata Ørsted, 1844) Örsted, A.S. (1844). Entwurf einer systematischen Einteilung und speciellen Beschreibung der Plattwuermer auf microscopische Untersuchungen gegründet. <em>J.C. Scharling, Copenhagen.</em> 96 p., 3 taf. [details]   

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]   

additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype, geounit Faroe Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Classification Originally described in Rhabdocoelen Turbellarien, in Vermes, not in Annelida [details]

Type locality Thorshavner [= Tórshavn] Bay, Faroe Islands, NE Atlantic Ocean [gazetteer estimate 62.0073°, -6.7684°], in shore or shallow water sheltered from waves, under the windows of Governor Lunddahl ["unter den Fenstern des Herrn Landvogt Lunddahl"; assumed to be in Tinganes Peninsula, where many of the Faroese government buildings have been traditionally located], on the surface of stones, where they could be found in clusters of thirty to fifty specimens.  [details]