WoRMS taxon details
Polycirrus medusa Grube, 1850
AphiaID: 131531
AphiaID: 131531
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Polycirrinae (Subfamily) > Polycirrus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Polycirrus Grube, 1850 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Polycirrus Grube, 1850 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ereutho smitti Malmgren, 1866 (subjective synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Grube, A.E. 1850. Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 16(1): 249-364., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/31180#page/257/mode/1up [details] basis of record: Hessle, Christian 1917. Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala, 5: 39-258. [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: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [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: 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] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(3): 355-410. [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 Polycirrus medusa sakhalinensis Buzhinskaja, 1988 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [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] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Plymouth [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), 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), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), lower North Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone ) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), North and South slope of Anticosti Island; Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: bathyal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Taxonomy: Subfamily: Polycirrinae, according to Trott (2004). [details] Type locality: Mediterranean Sea [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131531 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Polycirrus medusa Grube, 1850. 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=131531 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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