WoRMS taxon details
Glycera alba (O.F. Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 130116
AphiaID: 130116
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Glyceriformia (Suborder) > Glyceridae (Family) > Glycera (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Glycera Savigny, 1818 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Glycera albicans Quatrefages, 1850 (subjective synonym) Glycera branchialis Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Glycera danica Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Nereis alba Müller, 1776 (objective synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [details] [full text]
basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [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: Malmgren, A. J. 1867. Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Groenlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingfors. 127pp, & 115 plates, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 [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: Grube, A.E. 1850. Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 16(1): 249-364., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31180#page/257/mode/1up [details] additional source: Pocklington, P. 1989 MS. Polychaetes of eastern Canada. An illustrated key to polychaetes of eastern Canada including the eastern Arctic. Deparment of Fisheries and Oceans, Mont-Joli, Quebec. 274 p. + I-XXXIII pl. [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: 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] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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: Quatrefages, Armand de 1850. Etudes sur les types inferieurs de l'embranchement des Anneles.Memoires su la system nerveux des Annelides. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, Ser. 3, 14: 329-398., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13433776 [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] from synonym: Müller, Otto Friedrich. 1788. Zoologica Danica seu Animalium Daniae et Norwegiae rariorum ac minus notoruum. Descritiones et Historia. Volume 2. 1-55. Havniae., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33601499 page(s): 29 [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Glycera alba adspersa Fauvel, 1939 Subspecies Glycera alba cochinensis Southern, 1921 Subspecies Glycera alba macrobranchia Moore, 1911 accepted as Glycera macrobranchia Moore, 1911 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Baie de la Seine [details] Banc d'Arguin [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] English Channel [details] Golfe Normanno-Breton [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Roscoff [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of England [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
carnivore [details]
detritus feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (102 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Medium-sized (up to 75 mm long) bristle worm whose body narrows towards both ends. The eversible proboscis has papillae and four jaws. The antennae are very small. Segments are subdivided into rings. Small parapodia with clear gills. Colour: milk white. [details] Distribution: In the 1976-1986 period Glycera alba was only found twice (western coastal zone; maximum 4 ind./m2). In the 1994-2001 period the species was more widely distributed and was mainly found in the western near-coastal zone. Glycera alba was observed only sporadically in the open sea zone. In this period the species reached a maximum density of 100 ind./m2. [details] Distribution: Distribution: Indian Ocean, India, Red Sea, atlantic Ocean. (Fauvel,1957). [details] Distribution: Bay of Fundy; Iceland; North Sea; English Channel; France; Mediterranean [details] Habitat: Prefers mud and sand substrate; found in the littoral and sublittoral zone [details] Habitat: Glycera alba prefers sediments with a median grain size of 50 to 250 μm but is also found in coarser sediments (up to 500 μm). The species furthermore tends to prefer sediments with a mud content of 10-20%. The high relative occurrence in sediments with a mud content of 40-50% is considered unreliable. [details] Remark: Fauvel (1953) and MacNae & Kalk (1962) describe the species as Glycera alba Rathke. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130116 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Glycera alba (O.F. Müller, 1776). 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=130116 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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