WoRMS taxon details
Nicolea zostericola (Grube, 1860)
131508 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131508)
accepted
Species
Terebella zostericola Grube, 1860 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Terebella zostericola Grube, 1860) Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 98-99 [details]
page(s): 98-99 [details]
Type locality contained in Danish Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Distribution downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; lower St. Lawrence estuary; Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras
Taxonomy Subfamily: Amphitritinae, according to Trott (2004).
Distribution downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; lower St. Lawrence estuary; Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details]
Taxonomy Subfamily: Amphitritinae, according to Trott (2004).
Taxonomy Subfamily: Amphitritinae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Nicolea zostericola (Grube, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131508 on 2026-01-18
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Terebella zostericola Grube, 1860) Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 98-99 [details]
new combination reference Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 381-382, plate XXVI fig. 76; note: recombined from Terebella as Nicolea zostericola [details]
page(s): 98-99 [details]
new combination reference Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 381-382, plate XXVI fig. 76; note: recombined from Terebella as Nicolea zostericola [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Herpin, R. (1925). Remarques systematiques sur deux Terbelliens des cotes de France (Nicolea zostericola Oerst. sec. Grube et Nicolea venustula Montagu). <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 50: 311-317., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5444012h/f350.item# [details]
source of synonymy Marenzeller, Emil von. (1884). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. Dritter Beitrag. [Terebellen (<i>Amphitritea</i> Mgrn.)]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 89(1-3): 151-215, plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35292441
page(s): 195, plate 2, figure 2; note: Marenzeller has a synonymy for Nicolea venustula which includes as junior synonyms Nicolea zostericola, Terebella vestita, Terebella parvula [details]
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Marenzeller, Emil von. (1884). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. Dritter Beitrag. [Terebellen (<i>Amphitritea</i> Mgrn.)]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 89(1-3): 151-215, plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35292441
page(s): 195, plate 2, figure 2; note: Marenzeller has a synonymy for Nicolea venustula which includes as junior synonyms Nicolea zostericola, Terebella vestita, Terebella parvula [details]
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
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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 Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS)
note: checklist listing [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hessle, Christian. (1917). Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 5: 39-258, plates I-V., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38891407 [details]
biology source Herpin, R. 1925. La ponte et la developpement chez une Annelide polychete sedentaire Nicolea zostericola Mgn. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Science, Paris 180: 864-866. [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS)
note: checklist listing [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hessle, Christian. (1917). Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 5: 39-258, plates I-V., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38891407 [details]
biology source Herpin, R. 1925. La ponte et la developpement chez une Annelide polychete sedentaire Nicolea zostericola Mgn. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Science, Paris 180: 864-866. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Authority The authority is Grube (1860: 98). This name, in its original combination of Terebella zostericola, has been given the authorship of Örsted in Grube, 1860 by past workers. However, Grube is the author as no previous description exists. Grube took the nomen nudum of Örsted (1844) and, with a question mark attributes the annelid from Denmark he is describing to being what might be what Örsted (1844: 68) had found in the Issefjord but had not described. Örsted's name is not available from his work of 1844 (article 12.1), and if such a nomen nudum name is re-used the author is the worker who makes the name available, in this case Grube, 1860 (see Code Glossary). Note that removing Örsted from the authorship makes no difference to the priority between Terebella zostericola and its synonyms. However, workers who treated Terebella zostericola (subsequently Nicolea zostericola) as if published in 1844, and therefore senior to names published after 1844 (but before 1860), are mistaken. Note that when Malmgren (1866) recombined Terebella zostericola Grube into Nicolea he represented the authority as "Örsted sec. Grube". Here 'sec.' is 'secundum', and is equivalent to 'according to', a similar usage to 'sensu'. Thus the entity Malmgren transferred to Nicolea was that as described by Grube. This is a correct representation of the origin of the name, but the Zoo code of today would not acknowledge any contribution by Örsted - as there was no input from him into Grube's name apart from Grube choosing to re-use a hitherto undefined unavailable name. [details]
Synonymy Nicolea zostericola dates from 1860, therefore Nicolea longicornis Sar, 1829 is senior although in the Hartman catalogue (1959: 526) she stated longicornis Sars, 1829 is "Questionably Nicolea zostericola". This must be a mistake by Hartman. She got it from Malmgren (1866). Previously Marenzeller 1884 created a synonymy for Nicolea venustula which includes as junior synonyms Nicolea zostericola, Terebella vestita, Terebella parvula. Later Hessle (1917) also included Nicolea zostericola as junior to Nicolea venustula (Malmgren). However, Herpin (1925) appears to treat Nicolea venustula and Nicolea zostericola as separate taxa. Gil (2011: 1164) also treats both as valid. [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; lower St. Lawrence estuary; Cobscook Bay to Cape Hatteras [details]Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Taxonomy Subfamily: Amphitritinae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nicolea zostericola)
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (23 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (6 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 041371)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nicolea zostericola)
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 25 proteins)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (23 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (6 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 041371)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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