WoRMS taxon details
Polycirrus carolinensis Day, 1973
330868 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330868)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 122, fig. 16m-p [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 122, fig. 16m-p [details] Available for editors
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Note Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polycirrus carolinensis Day, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330868 on 2025-08-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 122, fig. 16m-p [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 122, fig. 16m-p [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 Glasby, Christopher J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2014). Revision of the taxonomy of <em>Polycirrus</em> Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Terebellida: Polycirridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3877(1): 1-117., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3877.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2014). Revision of the taxonomy of <em>Polycirrus</em> Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Terebellida: Polycirridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3877(1): 1-117., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3877.1.1 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Type locality Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina [details]Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polycirrus carolinensis)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (7 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 43122)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polycirrus carolinensis)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (7 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 43122)
To ITIS
