Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818 
AphiaID: 129582

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Annelida > Polychaeta > Canalipalpata > Sabellida > Serpulidae

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Parent		Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised taxa		Pomatoceros Philippi, 1844 (subjective synonym)
Sources		original description: Blainville, H. de 1818. Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes partie des Vers á sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique de Paris., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/24834#5 page(s): 79 [details] [full text] basis of record: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp 459-842. [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Hove, Harry A. ten, & E.K. Kupriyanova, 2009. Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. Zootaxa 2036, 126 pp., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02036p126.pdf page(s): 96 [details] [full text] additional source: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] from synonym: Glasby, C.; Read, G. (2009). Polychaeta, Myzostomida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Pillai, T.G. 2009 Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. Records of the Australian Museum 61(2): 93–199., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Pillai-2009-Rec-Aust-Mus-612-93199/ page(s): 146 [details] [view taxon]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English christmastree worms  [details] English X-mas tree worms  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Spirobranchus lamarcki (Quatrefages, 1866) Species Spirobranchus triqueter (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		West Coast of Norway (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129582
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Bellan, Gérard 2007-03-13 07:45:24Z   checked   Fiege, Dieter 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian
		[Taxonomic tree] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images]
		Citation: Fauchald, K.; Fiege, D.; Bellan, G. (2013). Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129582 on 2013-05-18
		The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License