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Eulalia viridis (Linnaeus, 1767) 
AphiaID: 130639

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Phyllodociformia (Suborder) > Phyllodocidae (Family) > Eteoninae (Subfamily) > Eulalia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Eulalia Savigny, 1818
Synonymised
taxa
  Eulalia (Eumida) microceros Claparède, 1868 (subjective synonym)
Eulalia annulata Verrill, 1873 (subjective synonym)
Eulalia brevisetis Saint-Joseph, 1899 (subjective synonym)
Eulalia virens Ehlers, 1864 (subjective synonym)
Eumidia vivida Verrill, 1873 (subjective synonym)
Nereis viridis Linnaeus, 1767 (objective synonym)
Phyllodoce clavigera Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (subjective synonym)
Phyllodoce gervillei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [full text]

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: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS[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: Hartman, O. 1942. The identity of some marine annelid worms in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 92(3142): 101-140. [details]

basis of record: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(1): 51-110. [details]

basis of record: McIntosh, W.C. 1908. A monograph of British Annelids. Ray Society of London, II. Part I. Polychaeta. Nephthydidae to Syllidae: 1-232., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McInA [details]

basis of record: Pettibone, Marian H. 1963. Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 227(1): 1-356. [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Pettibone, M.H. 1952 MS. Checklist of Polychaeta of New England region. 32 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]

source of synonymy: Bergström, Erik 1914. Zur Systematik der Polychætenfamilie der Phyllodociden. Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala, 3: 37-224. [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: Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. 1833. Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, sér. 1, 29: 195-269. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Saint-Joseph, Antoine de 1899. Annélides polychètes de la rade de Brest et de Paimpol. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, Ser. 8, 10: 161-194. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Ehlers, E. 1864. Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Volume 1. 1-268. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2081 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1873. [POLYCHAETA DATABASE USE] Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound and the adjacent waters, with an account of the physical characters of the region. Report of the United States Commission for Fisheries, 1871-72: 295-778. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Claparède, Édouard 1868. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 19(2): 313-584. [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch groene bladkieuwworm  [details]
English greenleaf worm  [details]
German grüner Blattwurm  [details]
Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Subspecies Eulalia viridis australiensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1987
Subspecies Eulalia viridis japanensis Imajima & Hartman, 1964

Subspecies Eulalia viridis aurea Gravier, 1896 accepted as Eulalia aurea Gravier, 1896
Subspecies Eulalia viridis capensis Schmarda, 1961 accepted as Steggoa capensis (Schmarda, 1861)
Subspecies Eulalia viridis ornata Saint-Joseph, 1888 accepted as Eulalia ornata Saint-Joseph, 1888
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Aby, Lagune [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Belize [details]
British Isles [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Specimen  Holotype (from synonym): MNHN POLY TYPE 124, locality Granville (Normandy, France, Atlantic Ocean) [view taxon]
Feedingtypes  predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Host of  Nereicola concinna T. Scott, 1902 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (129 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Arctic; Gulf of St. Lawrence to New Jersey; Alaska to Oregon; Japan, China, Indian Ocean [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Identification: E. viridis (L.) is a boreal species. According to Bonse et al. (1996), specimens reported from the English Channel are referable to E. clavigera (Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130639
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-11-28 20:29:45Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Eulalia viridis (Linnaeus, 1767). 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=130639 on 2013-05-20
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