WoRMS taxon details
Loimia medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)
AphiaID: 131499
AphiaID: 131499
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Terebellinae (Subfamily) > Loimia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Loimia Malmgren, 1865 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Terebella medusa Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (objective synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: 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: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp 459-842. [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Hilbig, Brigitte 2000. Family Terebellidae Grube, 1851. pages 231-294. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul Valentich. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 7 - The Annelida Part 4. Polychaeta: Fabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara page(s): 258 [details] additional source: Imajima, Minoru and Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 26: 1-452. [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] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] redescription: Hutchings, Patricia A. and Glasby, C.J. 1995. Description of the widely reported terebellid polychaetes Loimia medusa (Savigny) and Amphitrite rubra (Risso). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut 92: 149-154. page(s): 149 [details] from synonym: Gravier, C. 1906. Contribution à l'étude des Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge. Nouv.Arch.Mus.Paris, Ser. 4, 8: 123-236. page(s): 223 [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: Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de. 1818. [USE FOR POLYCHAETA = Vol. 5. Annelides of ...] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l`Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie] Paris, Deterville, 612 pp, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12712 [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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Loimia medusa angustescutata Willey, 1905 Subspecies Loimia medusa annulifilis (Grube, 1871) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] North West Atlantic [details] Panama [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] South Africa (country) [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Trinidad and Tobago [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: distribution: Pacific Ocean, California, Japan, Indo-China, Persian Gulf, red Sea, Atlantic ocean(Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details] Neotype: Hutchings & Glasby could not find a type and erected a neotype (LACM-AHF Poly 1656) collected from the Upper Persian Gulf. This is not from the known type locality of the Red Sea. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131499 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Loimia medusa (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818). 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=131499 on 2013-05-26 | |||||||||||||||||
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