WoRMS taxon details
Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943
AphiaID: 153847
AphiaID: 153847
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Polydora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Polydora Bosc, 1802 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Loosanoff, Victor L. and Engle, James B. 1943. Polydora in Oysters Suspended in the Water. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 85(1): 69-78. [details] basis of record: The Zoological Record: records of zoological literature relating chiefly to the year: Zoological Society of London City: London, UK (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: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Glasby, C.; Read, G. (2009). Polychaeta, Myzostomida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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: Read, Geoffrey B. 2010. Comparison and history of Polydora websteri and P. haswelli (Polychaeta: Spionidae) as mud-blister worms in New Zealand shellfish. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 44(2): 83–100. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2010.482969 page(s): 91 [details] redescription: Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Bonne Bay [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Manicouagan [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] | ||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
interface grazer [details] suspension feeder: facultative [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), 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), middle North Shore (from Sept -Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Nomenclature: OPINION 1974 (Case 3080)
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153847 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Polydora websteri. 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=153847 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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