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Amphitrite cirrata (O. F. Müller, 1771 in 1776) 
AphiaID: 131474

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Terebellinae (Subfamily) > Amphitrite (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Amphitrite O.F. Müller, 1771
Parent Amphitrite O.F. Müller, 1771
Synonymised
taxa
  Amphiro cirrata Montagu, 1808 (subjective synonym)
Amphiro foetida Montagu in McIntosh, 1922 (subjective synonym)
Amphitrite palmata Moore, 1906 (subjective synonym)
Amphitrite radiata Moore, 1908 (subjective synonym)
Nereis cirrosa Fabricius, 1780 (subjective synonym)
Nereis cirrosa Linnaeus, 1767 (subjective synonym)
Spio cirrata König in Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Terebella cirrhata Montagu, 1818 (subjective synonym)
Terebella montagui Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Teredo arenaria Forskål, 1775 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Müller, Otto Friedrich. 1771. Von Würmern des süssen und salzigen Wassers. 1-200. H. Mumme and Faber. Copenhagen., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50349#page/5/mode/1up [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: Hartman, O. 1948. The polychaetous annelids of Alaska. Pacific Science, 2(1): 3-58. [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]

basis of record: McIntosh, W.C. 1923. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta, Sabellidae to Serpulidae. With additions to the British marine Polychaeta during the publication of the monograph. Ray Society of London, 4(2): 251-538. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Dewarumez, Jean-Marie (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: 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]

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]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text]

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 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Quatrefages, Armand de. 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 1. 1-588. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. [some vol.2 species are also linked here but see also source 51472]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Montagu G. (1808). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, 9, pp. 81-114;pls. 2-8., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13719# [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Moore, J.P. 1908. Some polychaetous annelids of the northern Pacific coast of North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1908: 321-364. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Montagu, G. 1818. Descriptions of five British species of the genus Terebella. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 12: 340-344. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen. Memoires de L'Academie Imperiale.des Sciences de St.Petersbourg., Ser. 7, 25(8): 1-300. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Forskål, P. 1775. [Source for Polychaeta] Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium quae in itinere Orientali observavit P. Forskaal. 1-164. C. Niebuhr. Havniae., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2154
page(s): 99 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Hessle, Christian 1917. Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala, 5: 39-258. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(3): 355-410. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Moore, J.P. 1906. New species of Ampharetidae and Terebellidae from the North Pacific. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1906: 846-860. [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

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 Subspecies Amphitrite cirrata profunda Fauvel, 1909
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (not certain[details]
Canada [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (25 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (97 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 10 proteins)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: (O. F. Müller, 1776) [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), 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; Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Taxonomy: Subfamily: Amphitritinae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
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Amphitrite cirrata
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Amphitrite cirrata
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Amphitrite cirrata
Amphitrite cirrata
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Amphitrite cirrata - preserved
Amphitrite cirrata - preserved
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131474
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). Amphitrite cirrata (O. F. Müller, 1771 in 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=131474 on 2013-05-21
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