WoRMS taxon details
Nereis pelagica Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 130404
AphiaID: 130404
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Nereis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Nereis Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Nereis Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Heteronereis arctica Örsted, 1843 (subjective synonym) Heteronereis assimilis Örsted, 1843 (subjective synonym) Heteronereis grandifolia Malmgren, 1865 (subjective synonym) Heteronereis migratoria Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Nereilepas fusca Örsted, 1843 (subjective synonym) Nereis bowerbanckii Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Nereis denticulata Stimpson, 1854 (subjective synonym) Nereis ferruginea Gunnerus in Fabricius, 1780 (subjective synonym) Nereis fimbriata Müller, 1776 (subjective synonym) Nereis fulgens Dalyell, 1853 (subjective synonym) Nereis grandifolia Rathke, 1843 (subjective synonym) Nereis renalis Johnston, 1840 (subjective synonym) Nereis reynaudi Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Nereis subulicola Leach in Johnston, 1865 (subjective synonym) Nereis verrucosa Müller, 1776 (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 [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: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [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: Fauvel, P. 1914. Annélides polychètes non-pélagiques provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice (1885-1910). Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accompliés par le Prince Albert I, 46: 1-432., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18640#9 [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: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(3): 355-410. [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: McIntosh, W.C. 1910. A monograph of the British annelids. Polychaeta. Syllidae to Ariciidae. Ray Society of London, 2(2): 233-524., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McIn [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] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [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] 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: 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] redescription: Bakken, Torkild and Wilson, Robin S. 2005. Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta, 34(5):507-547 [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] redescription: Hilbig, Brigitte 1994. Family Nereididae Johnston, 1845. pages 301-327. IN: Blake, J.A. and Hilbig, Brigitte. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 4 - The Annelida Part 1. Oligochaeta and Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Phyllodocidae to Paralacydoniidae). Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [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] original description (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] [full text] original description (from synonym): Örsted, Anders Sandoe 1843. Grönlands Annulata dorsibranchiata. Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs. Naturvidenskabelige og mathematiske afhandlinger, 10 (series 4): 153-216. 8 plates, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48424#page/287/mode/1up [details] [view taxon] original description (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] original description (from synonym): Örsted, Anders Sandoe. 1843. Annulatorum danicorum conspectus. Volume Fasc. 1 Maricolae (Quæstio ab universitate Hafniensi ad solvendum proposita et proemio ornata). 1-52. Librariae Wahlianae. Hafniae (Copenhagen)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/11849 [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Stimpson, W., 1854. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.— Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 6: 1-66, Plates 1-3. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Fabricius, Otto 1780. [POLYCHAETA & ANNELIDA DATA. p.266-315; 374-384] Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens, Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum, capturamque singuli prout detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes: Hafniae [Copenhagen] et Lipsiae., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13489 [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Dalyell, J.G. 1853. The Powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation or, observations on life amidst the various of the humbler tribes of animated nature with practical comments and illustrations. 2 Edition. 1-359. John van Voorst. London. [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Rathke H. (1843). Beiträge zur fauna Norwegens. Verhandlungen Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie Naturforscher, Breslau, 20, 1, pp. 1-264, 264b, 264c; 12 pls., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613 [details] [view taxon] original description (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] | |||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Nereis pelagica largoensis Treadwell, 1931 Subspecies Nereis pelagica lunulata Ehlers, 1901 Subspecies Nereis pelagica occidentalis Hartman, 1945 Subspecies Nereis pelagica multignatha Imajima & Hartman, 1964 accepted as Nereis multignatha Imajima & Hartman, 1964 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Baie de la Seine [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Golfe Normanno-Breton [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Trinidad and Tobago [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Venezuela [details] West Coast of Norway [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype , locality West Europe ("In Pelago" (traditionally assumed to be western Europe)) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
carnivore [details]
omnivore [details] predator [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (325 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Arctic to Florida [details] Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130404 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Nereis pelagica. 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=130404 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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