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Spirobranchus tricornis Mörch, 1863 
AphiaID: 334837

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Spirobranchus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766)
Rank Species
Parent Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818
Sources  original description: 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]


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]

source of synonymy: 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]

new combination reference: 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Original Combination: Spirobranchus giganteus var. B. tricornis [details]

Taxonomic Remark: records from non-Caribbean localities should be reidentified, they mostly belong to Spirobranchus tetraceros.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334837
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-03-13 21:19:31Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Spirobranchus tricornis Mörch, 1863. 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=334837 on 2013-05-22
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