WoRMS taxon details
Spio filicornis (Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 131183
AphiaID: 131183
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Spio (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Spio Fabricius, 1785 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nereis filicornis Müller, 1776 (objective synonym) Spio gattyi McIntosh, 1909 (subjective synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [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: Chlebovitsch, V. V. 1961. (The polychaetous annelids of the tidal zone of the Kurile Islands). Akademiia Nauk SSSR, Zool.Inst.Issledovanie dal'nevost.morei SSSR, 7: 151-260. [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: Johnston, George. 1865. A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement], available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291 [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] 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: 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] 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: 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] source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1948. The polychaetous annelids of Alaska. Pacific Science, 2(1): 3-58. [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] redescription: Meißner, K.; Bick, A.; Bastrop, R. 2011. On the identity of Spio filicornis (O.F. Muller, 1776)—with the designation of a neotype, and the description of two new species from the North East Atlantic Ocean based on morphological and genetic studies. Zootaxa (2815): 1-27, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2815.html page(s): 6 [details] new combination reference: Fabricius, O. 1785. Von den Spio-Geschlechte, Nereis seticornis und Nereis filicornis. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft der naturforschende Freunde zur Berlin 6: 256-270,1plate. page(s): 264 [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Fabricius, Otto 1780. [POLYCHAETA & ANNELIDA DATA. p.266-315; 374-384] Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens, Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum, capturamque singuli prout detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes: Hafniae [Copenhagen] et Lipsiae., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13489 page(s): 307 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1909. Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. 31. 1. On a young stage of Gadus luscus with bold transverse bars of pigment. 2. On the british Spionidae. 3. On the Spionidae dredged by H.M.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3: 153-180. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Spio filicornis pacifica Berkeley, 1936 Subspecies Spio filicornis picta Zachs, 1933 accepted as Spio picta Zachs, 1933 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Grand Banks [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Kongsfjord [details] Manicouagan [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tunis Gulf [details] Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||
| Specimens |
Neotype: ZSRO P-2059 [details]
Neotype (from synonym): ZSRO P-2059 [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details] filter feeder [details] suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Marine Life Information Network - UK To Biodiversity Heritage Library (69 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: S. filicornis probably spawns in autumn or winter, releasing large eggs. Planktonic larvae are found from February to April. S. filicomis builds fragile tubes of sand fragments. lt swims in spirals when disturbed. Spionids are generally considered surface deposit feeders that use their large ciliated palps to select and pick up food particles (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Curtis, 1977; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] Distribution: As redescribed (Meißner et al, 2011) so far known only from Iluilârssuk (neotype locality) and Paamiut (Frederikshaab),West Greenland. See Spio arndti (Western Baltic Sea) and Spio symphyta (North Sea and perhaps Norwegian Sea). Spio 'filicornis' elsewhere may be other species although quite similar in appearance. [details] Distribution: In Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada [identity of the Spio of the distribution described needs to be re-evaluated - ed.] southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary; Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod [details] Editor's comment: These biology notes are probably outdated as at 2012. Two further European Spio species have been described that were previously included as "Spio filicornis". [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Habitat: The density distribution of this species suggests a preference for the sandy types of sediment with little mud, although other sediment types are inhabited as well. The species has for instance been reported from anoxic mud (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] Morphology: A thin and fragile species with a maximum length of 30 mm and about 2 mm wide. The body is composed of up 90 uniform segments. The head bears four small eyes arranged in a square and two palps. Finger-like, dorsally curved gills are present from the first to almost the last segment. The colour of the body is bluish green with contrasting red blood vessels in the palps and the gilis. Mature males are whitish, while females are brighter green (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Hayward & Ryland, 1990). [details] Type locality: Neotype, Near Paamiut (Frederikshaab), Iluilârssuk, West Greenland, 61° 50.059’ N, 49° 25.183’ W (61.834317° , -49.419717°), eulittoral [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131183 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Spio filicornis (Müller, 1776). 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=131183 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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