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Circeis spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 131201

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Spirorbinae (Subfamily) > Circeini (Tribe) > Circeis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Circeis Saint-Joseph, 1894
Synonymised
taxa
  Dexiospira spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758) (objective synonym)
Janua (Dexiospira) spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758) (objective synonym)
Janua (Dexiospira) spirillum lucida (Montagu, 1803)
Serpula lucida Montagu, 1803 (subjective synonym)
Serpula spirillum Linnaeus, 1758 (objective synonym)
Spirillum pellucidum Oken, 1815 (subjective synonym)
Spirorbis lucida (Montagu, 1803) (subjective synonym)
Spirorbis spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758) (objective synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1920. The Polychaetes Collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 9. Annelids, parasitic worms, Protozoans, etc (B. Polychaeta): 1-41. Pl.1-6. Thomas Mulvey. Ottawa. [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: 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: 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: The Zoological Record: records of zoological literature relating chiefly to the year: Zoological Society of London City: London, UK (look up in IMIS[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: Knight-Jones, Phyllis and Knight-Jones, E. Wyn 1977. Taxonomy and Ecology of British Spirorbidae (Polychaeta). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 57(2): 453-500.
page(s): 471 [details]


from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

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: 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: 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: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [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: Holly, M. (1938). Polychaeten aus der Nordsee [Polychaetes from the North Sea]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 14(12): 1-24 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Montagu, G. (1803) Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-water, Including the Most Minute: Systematically Arranged and Embellished with Figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp. and Vol. 2, 293–606 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 506 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Brown, T. (1844) Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the Description and Localities of all the Species, Marine, Land, and Fresh Water. Drawn and Coloured from Nature. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged. Smith, Elder & C
page(s): 124 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Caullery, M. and Mesnil, F. 1897. Etudes sur la morphologie comparee et la phylogenie des especes chez les Spirorbes. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 30: 185-233.
page(s): 198 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Oken, L. (1815) Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. 3 Theil. Zoologie. Abth 1 Fleischlose Thiere. Oken, Jena. xxviii + 850, 40 pls. [This work has been rejected for nomenclatural purposes, see ICZN opinion 417.]  [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Baie de la Seine [details]
Canada (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Channel Islands [details]
Cobscook Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Roscoff [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of England [details]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, 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, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), lower North Shore, western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131201
Taxonomic
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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). Circeis spirillum. 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=131201 on 2013-05-25
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