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Thelepus cincinnatus (Fabricius, 1780) 
AphiaID: 131543

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Thelepodinae (Subfamily) > Thelepus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Thelepus Leuckart, 1849
Synonymised
taxa
  Amphitrite cincinnata Fabricius, 1780 (synonym)
Heterophenacia renouardi Marion, 1883 (subjective synonym)
Lumara flava Stimpson, 1854
Phenacia ambigrada Claparède, 1870 (subjective synonym)
Phenacia pulchella Parfitt, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Phenacia retrograda Claparède, 1870 (subjective synonym)
Phenacia terebelloides Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Sabella conchilega Montagu, 1818 (subjective synonym)
Terebella madida Frey & Leuckart, 1847 (subjective synonym)
Terebella pustulosa Grube, 1860 (subjective synonym)
Thelephusa circinnata Verrill, 1871 (subjective synonym)
Thelepodopsis flava M. Sars in G.O. Sars, 1872 (subjective synonym)
Thelepus bergmanni Leuckart, 1849 (subjective synonym)
Thelepus cincinnatus andreanae McIntosh, 1922 (subjective synonym)
Thelepus cincinnatus canadensis McIntosh, 1885 (subjective synonym)
Thelepus circinnata Malmgren, 1866
Thelepus crassibranchiatus Treadwell, 1901 (subjective synonym)
Venusia punctata Johnston, 1865 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. 1909. Deuxième note préliminaire sur les Polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice, ou déposées dans la Musée Océanographique de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institute océanographique, 142: 1-76. [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: 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, 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: 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: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(1): 51-110. [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: 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]

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: 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]

source of synonymy: Pettibone, Marian H. 1954. Marine polychaete worms from Point Barrow, Alaska, with aditional records from the North Atlantic and North Pacific. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 103(3324): 203-356. [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: 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: 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: Marion, A. F. 1883. Esquisse d'une topographie zoologique du golfe de Marseille (2e. partie). Description des faunes. Ann.Mus.Marseille, 1: 19-108. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Stimpson, W., 1854. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.— Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 6: 1-66, Plates 1-3. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Claparède, Édouard 1870. Les annélides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève, 20(2): 365-542. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Parfitt, Edward 1866. Description of a new species of marine worm (Phenacia pulchella). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 3, 18: 1-2. [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: Frey, Heinrich and Leuckart, Rudolph. 1847. [As Polychaeta source] Beiträge zur Kenntnis Wirbelloser Thiere mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna des Norddeutschen Meeres. 1-170. Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn. Braunschweig., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/2128 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1860. Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Beitrag: Zahlreiche Gattungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 26: 71-118,3plates. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Sars, G.O. (1872). Diagnoser af nye Annelider fra Christianiaforden, efter Professor M. Sar's efterladte Manuskripter. Forhandlinger fra Videnskabs-Selskabet i Christiania, 1871: 406-417. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Leuckart, Rudolph 1849. Zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Island. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 15(1): 149-208, plate 3., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48696#page/157/mode/1up [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1901. The Polychaetous annelids of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 20(2): 181-210. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1871. Marine fauna of Eastport, Maine. Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Boston, 3(1): 2-6. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1922. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta: Hermellidae to Sabellidae. London, Ray Society Vol. 4(1) pp.1-250.  [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger during the years 1872-76, Ser. Zoology, 12: 1-554., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-34/htm/doc.html [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 Thelepus cincinnatus profundus Roule, 1896

Subspecies Thelepus cincinnatus andreanae McIntosh, 1922 accepted as Thelepus cincinnatus (Fabricius, 1780)
Subspecies Thelepus cincinnatus canadensis McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Thelepus cincinnatus (Fabricius, 1780)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Roscoff [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details]
suspension feeder: facultative [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (73 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 19 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, 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), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles to Pointe des Monts), upper Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone off Sept- Iles); lower North Shore; Cobscook Bay [details]

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

Taxonomy: Subfamily: Thelepinae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
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Thelepus cincinnatus
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131543
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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). Thelepus cincinnatus (Fabricius, 1780). 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=131543 on 2013-05-25
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