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Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802 
AphiaID: 131143

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
Typetaxon of  Polydora Bosc, 1802
Parent Polydora Bosc, 1802
Synonymised
taxa
  Polydora amarincola Hartman, 1936 (subjective synonym)
Polydora ligni Webster, 1879 (subjective synonym)
Polydora littorea Verrill, 1881 (subjective synonym)
Spio caudatus Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Bosc, L.A.C. 1802. Histoire naturelle des vers, contenant leur description et leur moeurs avec figures dessinées d'après nature. 3 vols. Paris, Deterville Libraire. [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: Blake, J.A. and Maciolek, Nancy J. 1987. A redescription of Polydora cornuta Bosc (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and designation of a neotype. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7: 11-15. [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: 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: 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: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source: Glasby, C.; Read, G. (2009). Polychaeta, Myzostomida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: Rice, Stanley A.; Rice, Katherine A. 2009. Variable modes of larval development in the Polydora cornuta complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) are directly related to stored sperm availability. Zoosymposia 2: 397-414, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zoosymposia/content/2009/v2/f/v002p397-414.pdf [details]

redescription: Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]

redescription: Cinar, Melih Ertan; Ergen, Zeki; Dagli, Ertan and Petersen, Mary E. 2005. Alien species of spionid polychaetes (Streblospio gynobranchiata and Polydora cornuta) in Izmir Bay, eastern Mediterranean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 85:821-827 [details]

redescription: Radashevsky, Vasily I. 2005. On adult and larval morphology of Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802 (Annelida: Spionidae). Zootaxa, 1064:1-24 [details]

from synonym: Dewarumez, Jean-Marie (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Blake, J.A. 1971. Revision of the genus Polydora from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 75: 1-32. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hartman, O. 1941. Some contributions to the biology and life history of Spionidae from California. With keys to species and genera and descriptions of two new forms. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 7(4): 289-323. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Webster, Henry E. 1879. The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. Annual Reports of the New York State Museum of Natural History, 32: 101-128. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: delle Chiaje, Stefano 1828. [POLYCHAETA context, Vol.3] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Volume 3. 1-232. Stamperia della Societa' Tipografica. Napoli., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40491 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de. 1818. [USE FOR POLYCHAETA = Vol. 5. Annelides of ...] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l`Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie] Paris, Deterville, 612 pp, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12712 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hartman, O. 1936. New species of Spionidae (Annelida Polychaeta) from the coast of California. University of California Publications in Zoology, 41(6): 45-52. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Söderström, Adolf 1920. Studien über die Polychätenfamilie Spionidae. 1-286. Uppsala University. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1881. Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part 2. Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc. collected by the United States Fish Commission. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 22: 356-405., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/12375 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English polydora mud worm (from synonym)  [details]
English whip mudworm (from synonym)  [details]
German Holzbohrender Polydorawurm (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Belize [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131143
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 cornuta. 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=131143 on 2013-05-23
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