WoRMS taxon details
Polydora ligni Webster, 1879
AphiaID: 152351
AphiaID: 152351
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Polydora (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (subjective synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Polydora Bosc, 1802 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Webster, Henry E. 1879. The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. Annual Reports of the New York State Museum of Natural History, 32: 101-128. [details] basis of record: Hartman, O. 1941. Some contributions to the biology and life history of Spionidae from California. With keys to species and genera and descriptions of two new forms. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 7(4): 289-323. [details] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Blake, J.A. 1971. Revision of the genus Polydora from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 75: 1-32. [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: 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., 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] source of synonymy: Blake, J.A. and Maciolek, Nancy J. 1987. A redescription of Polydora cornuta Bosc (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and designation of a neotype. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7: 11-15. [details] source of synonymy: Dewarumez, Jean-Marie (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence Estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), and the Southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley) [details] Habitat: Found in brackish waters, in the littoral and sublittoral zones over hard and sand substrate, often abundant in oyster beds. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152351 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Polydora ligni Webster, 1879. 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=152351 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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