WoRMS taxon details
Aricidea minuta Southward, 1956
AphiaID: 130564
AphiaID: 130564
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Paraonidae (Family) > Aricidea (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Aricidea (Aricidea) minuta Southward, 1956 | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aricidea Webster, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Southward, Eve C. 1956. On some Polychaeta of the Isle of Man. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9: 257-270. page(s): 269, figs. A-C [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] 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: Holtmann, S.E.; Groenewold, A.; Schrader, K.H.M.; Asjes, J.; Craeymeersch, J.A.; Duineveld, G.C.A.; van Bostelen, A.J.; van der Meer, J. (1996). Atlas of the zoobenthos of the Dutch continental shelf. Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management: Rijswijk, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-369-4301-9. 243 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Plymouth [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: BMNH , locality Isle of Man (Irish Sea, Atlantic Ocean; 9 1/2 miles S. 65º W. of Port Erin; muddy sand and shell gravel) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
herbivore [details] interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Spawning occurs between October and January. Mature females usually have less than 100 ova, which suggests a non- pelagic development. A. minuta presumably is a surface deposit feeder (Wolff, 1973; Fauchald & Jumars, 1979). [details] Depth: Type material collected at 34 fathoms (62 meters). [details] Distribution: On the Dutch Continental Shelf, A. minuta is most frequent in the sandy sediments of the Southern Bight. lt furthermore occurs north of the island of Rottum, on the Dogger Bank, in the western Wadden Sea and in the Oosterschelde, where it is very abundant. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: A. minuta lives in fine and muddy sands mixed with shell fragrnents (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Wolff, 1973). [details] Morphology: Body minute, up to 15 mm long and made up of around 45 segments. The head is bluntly conical with one small median antenna and without eyes. Ten to twelve pairs of simple gills are present from the fourth segment backwards. The parapodial lobes are small and finger-like. The species has no distinctive colour (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971). [details] Type material: Southward (1956) stated that "The type specimens are at present in the author's possession and will, in due course, be sent to the British Museum". However, the Zoological Collection Database of the Natural History Museum does not make any reference of type material of Aricidea minuta having been deposited in its collections (consulted online 12 May 2013 by João Gil). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130564 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gil, J.; Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Aricidea minuta Southward, 1956. 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=130564 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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