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Hediste diversicolor (O.F. Müller, 1776) 
AphiaID: 152302

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Hediste (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hediste Malmgren, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Neanthes diversicolor (Müller, 1776) (invalid combination)
Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor O.F. Müller, 1776 (objective synonym)
Nereis brevimanus Johnston, 1840 (subjective synonym)
Nereis depressa Frey & Leuckart, 1847 (subjective synonym)
Nereis diversicolor (Müller, 1776) (objective synonym)
Nereis sarsii Rathke, 1843 (subjective synonym)
Nereis versicolor Müller in Linnaeus, 1788
Nereis viridis Johnston, 1840 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [details] [full text]

basis of record: 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]

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: Malmgren, A. J. 1867. Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Groenlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingfors. 127pp, & 115 plates, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 [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: Bakken, Torkild and Wilson, Robin S. 2005. Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta, 34(5):507-547 [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: Vieitez, J.M.; M.A.; Alós, C.; Parapar, J.; Besteiro, C.; Moreira, J.; Nunez, J.; Laborda, J.; and San Martin, G. 2004. Annelida Polychaeta I. Fauna Iberica. Ramos, M.A. et al (Eds.). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Vol. 25:1-530 [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: Johnston, George 1840. Miscellanea Zoologica. Contributions towards a history of Irish Annelids (1). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 1, 5: 168-179,9 figures. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1908. A monograph of British Annelids. Ray Society of London, II. Part I. Polychaeta. Nephthydidae to Syllidae: 1-232., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McInA [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: Pettibone, Marian H. 1963. Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 227(1): 1-356.
page(s): 174 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Hartman, O. 1960. On Account of the Nereid Worm, Neanthes diversicolor, New Combination in the Caspian Sea and its More Extensive Distribution. unpublished translation of (Hartman, 1960. [On account of the nereid worm, Neanthes diversicolor, new combination in the Caspian Sea and its more extensive distribution] Akademiya Nauk SSSR 39(1):35-39). [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Rathke H. (1843). Beiträge zur fauna Norwegens. Verhandlungen Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Akademie Naturforscher, Breslau, 20, 1, pp. 1-264, 264b, 264c; 12 pls., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.11613 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1788). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta reformata. Cura J.F. Gmelin. G.E. Beer, Lipsiae 1(5-6):2225-3910. [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: Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Volume II. xx, 269-748. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2081 [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian shumëketëshi i lagunave  [details]
Dutch veelkleurige zeeduizendpoot  [details]
English estuary ragworm  [details]
English ragworm  [details]
German Seeringelwurm (from synonym)  [details]
Polish nereida  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Aby, Lagune (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Baie de la Seine [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
British Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cobscook Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
De Panne (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Kerkennah Islands [details]
Manicouagan [details]
Muuga harbour (Port of Tallinn, Gulf of Finland) [details]
North East Baltic Sea [details]
North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Plymouth [details]
Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Roscoff [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
Links BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (350 nucleotides; 345 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS
Images 
Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor
[image from synonym]
Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor
added on 2006-10-18 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
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Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor
[image from synonym]
Nereis (Hediste) diversicolor
added on 2006-10-18 - author: Nuyttens, Filip
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152302
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-04-11 07:51:31Z  created  Claus, Simon
2006-11-26 16:18:18Z  checked  Glasby, Chris
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Glasby, C. (2013). Hediste diversicolor (O.F. Müller, 1776). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152302 on 2013-05-21
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