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Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838) 
AphiaID: 131141

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Polydora (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Polydora Bosc, 1802
Synonymised
taxa
  Diplotis hyalina Montagu, 1815 (subjective synonym)
Leucodore audax Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Leucodore ciliatus Johnston, 1838 (objective synonym)
Leucodore ciliatus minuta Grube, 1855 (subjective synonym)
Leucodore dubius Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Leucodore fabricii Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Leucodore nasutus Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Metadasydytes quadrimaculatus Roszczak, 1971 (it'a a polychaete larva)
Polydora agassizii Claparède, 1869 (subjective synonym)
Polydora audax Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Johnston, George 1838. Miscellanea Zoologica Ariciadae. Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Edinburgh, 2: 63-73,plates2., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/magazinezoology01johngoog [details]

basis of record: McIntosh, W.C. 1915. A monograph of the British Annelids. Volume III. Part I. Text. Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. 1-368. Ray Society. London. [details]

basis of record: Mesnil, F. 1896. Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. I. Les Spionidiens des côtes de la Manche. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 29: 110-287. [details]

basis of record: Wilson, R.S.; Hutchings, P.A. and Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2003. List of Polychaete species introduced to Australia. Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne [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 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp 459-842. [details]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. 1927. Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. Faune de France Volume 16. 1-494. Paul Lechevalier. Paris., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]

basis of record: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [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: 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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.  [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: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[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]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Montagu, George 1815. Descriptions of several new or rare animals principally marine, found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11: 18-21. [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: Claparède, Édouard 1870. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Seconde partie. Annélides sédentaires. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 20(1): 1-225., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/lesannlidesch02clap [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1855. Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 21(1): 81-136, pls 3-5., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6651101 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch franjeworm  [details]
Dutch slikkokerworm  [details]
English bristleworm  [details]
German gewöhnlicher Polydorawurm  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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 Subspecies Polydora ciliata possjectica Buzhinskaja, 1971

Subspecies Polydora ciliata brevipalpa Zachs, 1933 accepted as Dipolydora commensalis (Andrews, 1891)
Subspecies Polydora ciliata limicola Annenkova, 1934 accepted as Polydora limicola Annenkova, 1934
Subspecies Polydora ciliata minuta Langerhans, 1881 accepted as Polydora langerhansi Mesnil, 1896 accepted as Dipolydora langerhansi (Mesnil, 1896)
Subspecies Polydora ciliata spongicola Berkeley & Berkeley, 1950 accepted as Polydora spongicola Berkeley & Berkeley, 1950
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Baie de la Seine [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Europe (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Roscoff [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wenduine [details]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links BIOTIC
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (118 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Distribution: Australia, Indo-China, india, Red Sea, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and Falkland Islands.(Fauvel,1953). [details]

Distribution: Bay of Fundy to Cape Hatteras [details]
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Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)
Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)
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Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)
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Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)
Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)
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Slabber (1778, pl. 07)
Slabber (1778, pl. 07)
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Slabber (1778, pl. 17)
Slabber (1778, pl. 17)
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Video 
Polydora ciliata in action
Polydora ciliata in action
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131141
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838). 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=131141 on 2013-05-19
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