WoRMS taxon details
Asclerocheilus beringianus Uschakov, 1955
326667 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326667)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich. 1955. Monogoshchetinkovye chervi dal'nevostochnykh morei U.S.S.R. 1-445. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. Moscow & Leningrad.
page(s): 315, fig. 116I-L [details]
page(s): 315, fig. 116I-L [details]
Note Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Bering Sea; off northern Honshu Island (Japan); northern California.
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Bering Sea; off northern Honshu Island (Japan); northern California. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Asclerocheilus beringianus Uschakov, 1955. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326667 on 2025-10-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich. 1955. Monogoshchetinkovye chervi dal'nevostochnykh morei U.S.S.R. 1-445. Izdatel'stvo Akademii Nauk SSSR. Moscow & Leningrad.
page(s): 315, fig. 116I-L [details]
page(s): 315, fig. 116I-L [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Blake, James A. (2025). New species and records of Scalibregmatidae (Annelida) from the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean, and adjacent seas. <em>Megataxa.</em> 16(1): 1–232., available online at https://mapress.com/mt/article/view/megataxa.16.1.1
page(s): 24, figure 6; note: Interpretation and illustrations based on original of Ushakov 1955/1965 [details]
redescription Blake, J.A. 2000. Family Scalibregmatidae Malmgren, 1867. pages 129-144. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul Valentich. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 7 - The Annelida Part 4. Polychaeta: Fabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
page(s): 24, figure 6; note: Interpretation and illustrations based on original of Ushakov 1955/1965 [details]
redescription Blake, J.A. 2000. Family Scalibregmatidae Malmgren, 1867. pages 129-144. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul Valentich. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 7 - The Annelida Part 4. Polychaeta: Fabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
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]
additional source Imajima, Minoru. (2009). Deep-sea Benthic polychaetes off Pacific Coast of the northern Honshu, Japan. <em>National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs.</em> 39: 39–192 [In. T. Fujita (ed.) theme issue, "Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific Coast of northern Japan"].
page(s): 141-142, figs. 46A-D, 47A-F [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]
additional source Imajima, Minoru. (2009). Deep-sea Benthic polychaetes off Pacific Coast of the northern Honshu, Japan. <em>National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs.</em> 39: 39–192 [In. T. Fujita (ed.) theme issue, "Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific Coast of northern Japan"].
page(s): 141-142, figs. 46A-D, 47A-F [details] Available for editors






Nontype NSMT Pol. 109834, geounit Honshu Island [details]
Nontype Private CASIZ (no number), geounit California [details]
Nontype Private CASIZ (no number), geounit California [details]
Nontype Private CASIZ (no number), geounit California [details]
Nontype Private CASIZ (no number), geounit California [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Bering Sea; off northern Honshu Island (Japan); northern California. [details]Identification Blake (2025: 25) states that, alfthough reported widely "It is clear that most, if not all, of the non-Arctic records of Asclerocheilus beringianus likely belong to other undescribed species." [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea [details]