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Serpula operculata Bosc, 1802 
AphiaID: 331866

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Serpula (Genus)
Status species inquirenda
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Serpula Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Vermilia operculata (Bosc, 1802) (objective synonym)
Sources  original description: Bosc, L.A.C. 1802. Histoire naturelle des vers, contenant leur description et leur moeurs avec figures dessinées d'après nature. 3 vols. Paris, Deterville Libraire. [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: Bosc, L.A.G. 1827 Histoire naturelle des Vers, contenant leur description et leurs moeurs. Ed. 2, 1. Paris, Librairie Rôret, 387 pp.
page(s): 205 [details]


new combination reference (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): 527 [details] [view taxon]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Editor's comment: Indeterminable species, its almost spherical, brownly annulated operculum and transversly striated tube are reminiscent of Vermiliopsis (?)  [details]

Homonymy: Serpula operculata Renier, 1804 [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, South Carolina [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331866
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-01-03 10:30:34Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Serpula operculata Bosc, 1802. 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=331866 on 2013-06-20
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