WoRMS taxon details
Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 209944
AphiaID: 209944
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Spirobranchus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cymospira bicornis Abildgaard, 1789 in Blainville, 1828 Cymospira cervina Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Cymospira gigantea Pallas, 1766 in Blainville, 1828 Cymospira megasoma Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym) Cymospira rubus Quatrefages, 1866 Olga elegantissima Jones, 1962 (subjective synonym) Penicillum marinum Seba, 1758 (pre Linnaean name) Pomatoceros oerstedi Voss & Voss, 1955 (nomen nudum, subjective synonym) Serpula (Cymospira) gigantea Pallas, 1766 (objective synonym) Serpula (Galeolaria) gigantea (Pallas, 1776) (objective synonym) Serpula bicornis (Abildgaard, 1789) (subjective synonym) Serpula gigantea Pallas, 1766 (synonym) Spirobranchus (Cymospira) giganteus (Pallas, 1776) (objective synonym) Spirobranchus giganteus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) Spirobranchus giganteus microceras Mörch, 1863 (subjective synonym) Spirobranchus giganteus tricornis Mörch, 1863 (subjective synonym) Spirobranchus megasoma (Quatrefages, 1866) Spirobranchus tricornis Mörch, 1863 (subjective synonym) Terebella bicornis Abildgaard, 1789 (subjective synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp 459-842. [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] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (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] redescription: Hove, Harry A. ten 1970. Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - the genus Spirobranchus. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands, 32: 1-57. [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: Pallas P.S. (1766). Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cTQVAAAAQAAJ [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 page(s): p.542 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Jones, Meredith L. 1962. On some polychaetous annelids from Jamaica, the West Indies. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 124(5): 169-212., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1213 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ehlers, E. 1887. Report on the annelids 31. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Ser. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Poutalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the G [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Mörch, O. A. L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, København, Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]. , available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft page(s): 404 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Abildgaard, P.C. 1789. Beschreibung einer grossen Seeblase (Holothuria priapus Linn.), zween Arten des Steinbohrers (Terebella Linn.), einer grossen Sandroehre (Sabella Linn.). Gesellschaft der naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, Schrifte, 9: 133-146. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Seba, Albertus, 1735-1765. Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physices historiam. Description exacte des principales curiosités naturelles du magnifique cabinet d'Albert Seba. 4 vols., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14110 page(s): 39 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Voigt, F.S., 1836. Das Thierreich, geordnet nach seiner Organisation (Vom Baron von Cuvier). Bd. 4, Leipzig: 6-61. page(s): 13 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Voss, G. L. and Voss, N. A. 1955. An ecological survey of Soldier Key, Biscayne Bay, Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science 5: 203-229. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Savigny, Jules Cesar 1822. Système des annelides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description.de l'Egypte.Histoire.Naturelle, Paris 1(3): 1-128. page(s): 75 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Lucas H. (1842). Histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides et des myriapodes. P. Duménil, Paris, 601 pp. [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 page(s): 530 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus arabica Monro, 1937 accepted as Spirobranchus arabicus Monro, 1937 Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus corniculatus (Grube, 1862) accepted as Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862) Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus coutierei Gravier, 1908 accepted as Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861) Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus microceras Mörch, 1863 accepted as Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus tricornis Mörch, 1863 accepted as Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) Subspecies Spirobranchus giganteus turbinatus Pixell, 1913 accepted as Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Curaçao [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] West Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Serpuliphilus tenax Humes & Stock, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Editor's comment: In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be subspecies, in the meantime all recognized as species-complexes by themselves, totalling some 10 different species, see Fiege & ten Hove (1999 fig.4) for a graphic overview. There is a lot of confusion in the existing identifications of circumtropical "Sp. giganteus", but the use of the latter binomen should be restricted to the specimens from the Caribbean. All non-Caribbean records should be re-identified, some nominal "S. giganteus" even more likely belong to S. tetraceros. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209944 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766). 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=209944 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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