WoRMS taxon details
Sternaspis affinis Stimpson, 1864
338196 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338196)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stimpson, William. (1864). Descriptions of new species of marine Invertebrata from Puget Sound, collected by the naturalists of the North-West Boundary Commission, A.H. Campbell, Esq., Commissioner. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 16(3): 153-161., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1942749
page(s): 159; note: no figures [details]
page(s): 159; note: no figures [details]
Neotype RBCM 005- 138-001, verbatimGeounit Straits of...
, Note designated by neotype locality, 49.1797222,...
Neotype RBCM 005- 138-001, verbatimGeounit Straits of Georgia, ... [details]
Type locality designated by neotype locality, 49.1797222, -123.3005556, is Straits of Georgia, Canada. The original type locality was an unstated location assumed within Puget Sound, USA (title of paper). Strictly Straits of Georgia is beyond Puget Sound, but this seems immaterial given the vague original location of Stimpson's sample [G. Read ed's comment] [details]
Type material "The original material was deposited in the Smithsonian and later transferred to Chicago when William Stimpson was appointed director of the local Academy of Sciences in 1866, but [...] destroyed in 1871 during the great Chicago fire ..." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sternaspis affinis Stimpson, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338196 on 2025-12-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Stimpson, William. (1864). Descriptions of new species of marine Invertebrata from Puget Sound, collected by the naturalists of the North-West Boundary Commission, A.H. Campbell, Esq., Commissioner. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 16(3): 153-161., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1942749
page(s): 159; note: no figures [details]
page(s): 159; note: no figures [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Drennan, Regan; Wiklund, Helena; Rouse, Greg W.; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wu, Xuwen; Kobayashi, Genki; Yoshino, Kenji; Glover, Adrian G. (2019). Taxonomy and phylogeny of mud owls (Annelida: Sternaspidae), including a new synonymy and new records from the Southern Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean: challenges in morphological delimitation. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> efirst: 1-39., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-019-00998-0
page(s): 9 of 39, figure 5; note: description and figures and taxonomic remarks re Atlantic Ocean Sternaspis fossor [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]
redescription Sendall, Kelly; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio. 2013. Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286(0): 1-74
page(s): 23 [details]
page(s): 9 of 39, figure 5; note: description and figures and taxonomic remarks re Atlantic Ocean Sternaspis fossor [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]
redescription Sendall, Kelly; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio. 2013. Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286(0): 1-74
page(s): 23 [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Neotype RBCM 005- 138-001, verbatimGeounit Straits of Georgia, ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality designated by neotype locality, 49.1797222, -123.3005556, is Straits of Georgia, Canada. The original type locality was an unstated location assumed within Puget Sound, USA (title of paper). Strictly Straits of Georgia is beyond Puget Sound, but this seems immaterial given the vague original location of Stimpson's sample [G. Read ed's comment] [details]Type material "The original material was deposited in the Smithsonian and later transferred to Chicago when William Stimpson was appointed director of the local Academy of Sciences in 1866, but [...] destroyed in 1871 during the great Chicago fire ..." [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ゴタバウミダルマ | [details] |
Sternaspis affinis Stimpson redescription (neotype)
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sternaspis affinis)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (23 records)
To Barcode of Life (13 barcodes)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sternaspis affinis)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (23 records)
