Polychaeta taxon details
Melinna cristata (M. Sars, 1851) AphiaID: 129804
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Melinna |
Synonymised
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Sabellides cristata Sars, 1851 (synonym)
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| Sources | |
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: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(1): 51-110. [details]
additional source: Fauchald, K., A. Granados-Barba, and V. Solís-Weiss. 2009. Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]
additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]
additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]
additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source: Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
redescription: Jirkov, I.A. 2001. [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Moskva, Yanus-K, 1-632, available online at http://hydro.bio.msu.ru/Personal/Jirkov.htm [details]
from synonym: 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] [view taxon]
from synonym: Sars, M. (1856). Nye Annelider. Fauna littoralis Norvegiae 2. 1-24. Fredrik D. Beyer. Bergen. [details] [view taxon]
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taxa
[show all] | | Subspecies Melinna cristata australis Hartmann-Schröder, 1965
Subspecies Melinna cristata heterodonta Moore, 1923 accepted as Melinna heterodonta Moore, 1923
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Roscoff [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Trinidad and Tobago [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Venezuela [details]
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| Feedingtype | |
deposit feeder: surface [details]
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| Host of | |
Melinnacheres ergasiloides Sars M., 1870 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | | To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (87 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary; Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait); Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod [details]
Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Taxonomy: Subfamily: Melinninae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
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| Images | | 
Melinna cristata in tubes
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Melinna cristata - preserved
added on 2010-07-24 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129804 |
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| | | Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Melinna cristata. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129804 on 2013-05-19 |
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