WoRMS taxon details
Serpula afra Gmelin, 1791
AphiaID: 331811
AphiaID: 331811
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Serpula (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Vermetus afer (Gmelin, 1791) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Serpula Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gmelin, J. F. (1791) Vermes. In Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Editio Decima Tertia, Aucta Reformata. Tome 1, Pars 6 (Vermes). G.E. Deer, Leipzig, pp. 3021-3910., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 page(s): 3745 [details] basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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: Bieler, R. & R. E. Petit, 2011, Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa, 2948, 1-103. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02948p103.pdf page(s): 22 [details] status source: Keen M. (1961). A proposed reclassification of the gastropod family Vermetidae. Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology), 7(3): 183-213, pls. 54-55. [February] page(s): 187, 193, 201 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Editor's comment: based on Adanson, this possibly might be a Vermetid (in Keen 1961); however, Gmelin's description refers to a tube "cast in clay . . ., with ventral apex" [ex luteo susea . . ., apice centrale], which is unlike a Vermetid or Serpulid, but rather reminiscent of a foraminifera [details] Type locality: "Gorée Island" [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331811 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Serpula afra Gmelin, 1791. 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=331811 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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