WoRMS taxon details
Scolelepis bonnieri (Mesnil, 1896)
AphiaID: 131171
AphiaID: 131171
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Scolelepis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nerine bonnieri Mesnil, 1896 (basionym) | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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: 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: Dewarumez, Jean-Marie (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] from synonym: Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d’Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. Cah. Biol. Mar. 44(1): 67-95 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Baie de la Seine [details] 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] North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life 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 |
Biology: In spite of its common occurrence there is little information available on its life history or behaviour. S. bonnieri lives in mobile sands and builds loosely constructed burrows or is free-living. Members of the family Spionidae are generally considered surface deposit feeders, using their ciliated palps to select food particles (Fauchald & Jumars, 1979). [details] Description: A bristle worm with a cylindrical body measuring up to 60 mm long. The head is acuminate and bears two long palps. The parapodial flaps are prominently present and are dorsally fused with the gills of each segment. The worm is coloured pink. [details] Distribution: In the 1976-1986 period Scolelepis bonnieri was mainly found in the area of the Flemish and Zeeland Banks whereas the species had a broader distribution in the 1994-2001 period (all sandbank systems except the Coastal Banks). However, the species never reached high densities (maximum 150 ind./m2). [details] Distribution: A widespread species occurring in the subtidal zone of the western Wadden Sea, the Southern Bight, part of the Oyster Ground and at the Dogger Bank. Highest densities are found near the coast. lt is absent from the Delta area and the central Oyster Ground. [details] Habitat: The habitat preference of Scolelepis bonnieri is positively correlated with the median grain size: the coarser the sediment, the larger the chance of finding S. bonnieri. However, this chance never exceeds 30%. The species furthermore prefers sediments with low mud contents: the higher the mud content, the smaller the chance to find S. bonnieri (maximum 20%). [details] Habitat: S. bonnieri lives in a wide range of sediment types but seems to avoid substrates with a high mud content. [details] Morphology: Body cylindrical, with a maximum length of 40 mm and up to 90 segments. The head is pointed and bears two palps and a short median antenna of which the tip is free. The parapodia have distinct lobes on all segments and gills from one of the first segments onwards. The gills are fused with the upper lobe of the parapodia. The colour of the worm is pink (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971). [details] Spelling: In Müller (2004) as Scololepis bonnieri [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131171 | |||||||
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| Citation: Bellan, G. (2013). Scolelepis bonnieri (Mesnil, 1896). 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=131171 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||
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