WoRMS taxon details
Acoetes pleei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832
326208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326208)
accepted
Species
Acoetes magnifica Treadwell, 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Panthalis pustulata Treadwell, 1924 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1832). [Part 1] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> Sér. 1, 27: 337-447., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6062037
page(s): 437; note: specimen sent from Martinique [details]
page(s): 437; note: specimen sent from Martinique [details]
Type locality contained in Martinican Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Martinique
type locality contained in Martinican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Type locality Martinique [details]
Etymology Named after the collector Plée. Audouin & Milne Edwards write "Jusqu'ici ou n'a pas trouve d'Acoète sur les côtes de...
Etymology Named after the collector Plée. Audouin & Milne Edwards write "Jusqu'ici ou n'a pas trouve d'Acoète sur les côtes de France; la seule espèce connue a été envoyée de la Martinique par M. Plée et fait partie de la collection du Muséum." [So far have not found any Acoetes on the coasts of La France; the only known species was sent from Martinique by M. Plée and is part of the Museum's collection.] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Acoetes pleei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326208 on 2026-01-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1832). [Part 1] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> Sér. 1, 27: 337-447., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6062037
page(s): 437; note: specimen sent from Martinique [details]
original description (of Acoetes magnifica Treadwell, 1929) Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1929). <i>Acoetes magnifica</i>, a new species of polychaetous annelid from Montego Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 355: 1-4., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3949
page(s): 1-3, fig. 1.1-7 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Panthalis pustulata Treadwell, 1924) Treadwell, Aaron L. (1924). Polychaetous annelids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. <em>University of Iowa Studies in Natural History.</em> 10(4): 3-23, plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15291771
page(s): 7-9, plate I figs. 10-15 [details]
page(s): 437; note: specimen sent from Martinique [details]
original description (of Acoetes magnifica Treadwell, 1929) Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1929). <i>Acoetes magnifica</i>, a new species of polychaetous annelid from Montego Bay, Jamaica, British West Indies. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 355: 1-4., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3949
page(s): 1-3, fig. 1.1-7 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Panthalis pustulata Treadwell, 1924) Treadwell, Aaron L. (1924). Polychaetous annelids collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. <em>University of Iowa Studies in Natural History.</em> 10(4): 3-23, plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15291771
page(s): 7-9, plate I figs. 10-15 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Pettibone, Marian H. 1989. Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers,1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 464: 1-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.464
page(s): 70, figures 47-51; note: redescription from holotype [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 70, figures 47-51; note: redescription from holotype [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Named after the collector Plée. Audouin & Milne Edwards write "Jusqu'ici ou n'a pas trouve d'Acoète sur les côtes de France; la seule espèce connue a été envoyée de la Martinique par M. Plée et fait partie de la collection du Muséum." [So far have not found any Acoetes on the coasts of La France; the only known species was sent from Martinique by M. Plée and is part of the Museum's collection.] [details]Specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 44 [details]
Type locality Martinique [details]
