WoRMS taxon details
Scolelepis squamata (Müller, 1806)
AphiaID: 131177
AphiaID: 131177
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Scolelepis (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Scolelepis (Scolelepis) squamata (O.F. Muller, 1806) | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Lumbricus cirratulus Delle Chiaje, 1831 (subjective synonym) Nereis foliata Dalyell, 1853 (subjective synonym) Nerine agilis Verrill, 1873 (subjective synonym) Nerine capensis McIntosh, 1924 (subjective synonym) Nerine cirratulus (Delle Chiaje, 1831) Nerine cirratulus chilensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1962 (subjective synonym) Nerine heteropoda Webster, 1879 (subjective synonym) Nerine minuta Treadwell, 1939 (subjective synonym) Nerinides agilis (Verrill, 1873) (objective synonym) Nerinides goodbodyi Jones, 1962 (subjective synonym) Scolelepis agilis (Verrill, 1873) (subjective synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Pettibone, Marian H. 1963. Revision of some genera of polychaete worms of the family Spionidae, including the description of a new species of Scolelepis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 76: 89-104. [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: Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details] basis of record: Foster, Nancy Marie 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands, 36(129): 1-183. [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: Uebelacker and Johnson (eds.), 1984 [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: 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] from synonym: Day, J.H. & J.F.C. Morgans (1956). The ecology of South African estuaries. Part 7. The Biology of Durban Bay. Ann. Natal Mus. 13: 259-312. [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 page(s): 66 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Dalyell, J.G. 1853. The Powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation or, observations on life amidst the various of the humbler tribes of animated nature with practical comments and illustrations. 2 Edition. 1-359. John van Voorst. London. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Webster, Henry E. 1879. The Annelida Chaetopoda of the Virginian coast. Transactions Albany Institute New York, 9: 202-272. [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: delle Chiaje, Stefano 1829 [1831]. [POLYCHAETA context. Vol.4] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Volume IV. i-viii, 1-214. Stamperia della Societa' Tipografica. Napoli., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40485 page(s): 196 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1924. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. 46. 1. On Mercierella. 2. Prelimiary account of a second contribution to South African polychaetes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 9, 14: 1-52. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1939. New polychaetous annelids from New England, Texas and Puerto Rico. American Museum Novitates, 1023: 1-7. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Jones, Meredith L. 1962. On some polychaetous annelids from Jamaica, the West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 124(5): 169-212., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1213 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hartman, O. 1956. Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 109(2): 239-310. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1962. Die Polychaeten des Eulitorals. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, G. and Gerd Hartmann. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der chilenischen Pazifikküste und der argentinischen Küste Südpatagoniens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut 60: 57-270. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Scolelepis squamata mendanai Gibbs, 1971 Subspecies Scolelepis squamata saipanensis (Hartman, 1954) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Baie de la Seine [details] Banc d'Arguin [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Madagascar [details] Mexico [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Panama [details] Plymouth [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Roscoff [details] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tunis Gulf (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Venezuela [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details] suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: The larvae of this species have been recorded from March to July, with highest numbers in May-July. Fertilization is external and the larva is free-swimming for approximately five weeks before it settles. Although spionids generally are considered deposit feeders, S. squamata almost exclusively acts as a suspension feeder, using its long palps to catch floating particles. The species is a common food item for demersal fish and is also eaten by birds. lt lives at depths of about 40 cm in the sediment inside vertical, loosely constructed burrows lined with mucus. It has also been observed free-living, swimming in spirals (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Wolff, 1973; Fauchald & Jumars, 1979; Dauer, 1983; Fish & Fish, 1989; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] Distribution: Western Atlantic: New Enlgand to Florida [details] Distribution: S. squamata is mainly found in the off shore part of the Southern Bight and north of the Wadden islands, and occasionally at the Dogger Bank. lt is absent from the Oyster Ground. S. squamata furthermore occurs in the western and eastern Wadden Sea as well as in the Delta area, viz. in the eastern part of the Westerschelde. [details] Habitat: The species lives in fine to medium sand and sometimes in slightly muddy sand. lt shows a very strong preference for well sorted sediments (Wolff, 1973). [details] Morphology: This species closely resembles S. bonnieri, but differs from that species by the median antennae, which forms a low ridge without a free tip, and the gills, which are free of the upper parapodial lobes in the hind region of the body. The maximum length is 50 mm with around 200 segments. It is bluish green in colour and the gills are red (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Fish & Fish, 1989; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] Spelling: In Müller (2004) as Scololepis squamata [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131177 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Scolelepis squamata (Müller, 1806). 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=131177 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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