WoRMS taxon details
Eunereis longissima Johnston, 1840
AphiaID: 130375
AphiaID: 130375
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Eunereis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Eunereis Malmgren, 1865 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Heteronereis mitis Grube, 1870 (subjective synonym) Nereis edenticulata Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Nereis longissima Johnston, 1840 (basionym) Nereis regia Quatrefages, 1850 (subjective synonym) Rullierinereis tenerifensis Núñez, Brito & Ballacado, 1984 (subjective 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] basis of record: Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Volume II. xx, 269-748. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2081 [details] basis of record: Hartman, O. 1959. Capitellidae and Nereidae (marine annelids) from the Gulf side of Florida with a review of freshwater Nereidae. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 9(2): 153-168. [details] additional source: 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] 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: Bakken, Torkild and Wilson, Robin S. 2005. Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta, 34(5):507-547 [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] redescription: Vieitez, J.M.; M.A.; Alós, C.; Parapar, J.; Besteiro, C.; Moreira, J.; Nunez, J.; Laborda, J.; and San Martin, G. 2004. Annelida Polychaeta I. Fauna Iberica. Ramos, M.A. et al (Eds.). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Vol. 25:1-530 [details] from synonym: Núñez, J., M. d. C. Brito and J.J. Ballacado (1984). Catálogo provisional de los Anélidos Poliquetos del Archipiélago Canario." Cuadernos Marisqqueros Publ. Téc. 7: 113-148. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Núñez, J. ; Brito, M. D. 2006: A new species of Rullierinereis and new records of Nereididae from sublittoral sandy bottoms off Lanzarote (Canary Islands). Scientia Marina 70: 145-150. page(s): 149 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Johnston, George 1840. Miscellanea Zoologica. Contributions towards a history of Irish Annelids (1). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 1, 5: 168-179,9 figures. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1870. Über die Beziehungen der Nereis i.e. S. zu den Heteronereis. Schles.gesellschaft fur vaterlandische cultur Breslau Jahresber., 47: 52-54. [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: 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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Baie de la Seine [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Golfe Normanno-Breton [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Plymouth [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Westerschelde (not certain) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details] omnivore [details] predator [details] scavenger [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Sexually ripe specimens have been observed in April and May. Most probably the larvae have a planktonic development. E. longissima lives in burrows. When conditions become unfavourable it will rapidly and repeatedly move and set up a new tube at other locations. E. longissima is mainly a non-selective deposit feeder, feeding on algae and dead animals. The species itself is eaten by flatfish (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Wolff, 1973; Fauchald & Jumars, 1979). [details] Description: The bristle worm Eunereis longissima can reach a length of up to 50 cm, although only smaller specimens with a maximum length of 20cm have been found on the Belgian part of the North Sea. The striking head structures with tentacles, palps, antennae and four eyes are characteristic. Living specimens have a red to iridescent dark brown colour. [details] Distribution: With only eight observations and a maximum density of 16 ind./m2 Eunereis longissima was a rare phenomenon in the entire near-coastal zone in the 1976-1986 period. In the 1994-2001 period the number of observations increased and densities up to 100 ind./m2 were noted. The species still mainly occurred near the coast, but clearly avoided the eastern coastal zone. [details] Distribution: N. longissima occurs from the subtidal zone of the Wadden Sea and the Delta area down to a depth of 50 m in the Oyster Ground, where it is quite abundant. In the offshore part of the Southern Bight N. longissima is almost absent. [details] Habitat: Its density distribution suggests a preference for substrates with an admixture of mud. [details] Habitat: Eunereis longissima is typically found in sediments with a median grain size of 100 to 250 μm. The species has a broad mud content tolerance but tends to prefer (relative occurrence: > 50%) sediments with a mud content of 10-20%. [details] Morphology: A species with a long, rather flattened body of up to 150 mm in length, with over 200 segments. The head is conical, truncate, with two frontal antennae, two biarticulate palps and four relatively small eyes. The first segments bears four pairs of cirri. Like all nereids, the species has an eversible proboscis and two terminal jaws. The small number of teeth on the proboscis are characteristic for this species. The body segments are rather uniform, with prominent, powerful parapodia bearing distinct lamellae. lt is blue-grey, reddish or pinkish in colour (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130375 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Eunereis longissima Johnston, 1840. 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=130375 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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