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Polychaeta taxon details

Cirratulus cirratus (O. F. Müller, 1776) 
AphiaID: 129959

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Cirratuliformia (Suborder) > Cirratulidae (Family) > Cirratulus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Cirratulus Lamarck, 1801
Synonymised
taxa
  Lumbricus cirratus Müller, 1776 (objective synonym)
Promenia fulgida Ehlers, 1897 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 [details] [full text]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. 1916. Annélides polychètes des Iles Falkland receuillies par M. Rupert Vallentin Esq. (1902-1910). Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale, 55: 417-482. [details]

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: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[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]

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: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [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]

from synonym: Malmgren, A. J. 1867. Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Groenlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingfors. 127pp, & 115 plates, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Ehlers, E. 1897. Polychaeten. Hamburger Magalhaensische Sammelreise, 1897: 1-148. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English bristleworm  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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 Subspecies Cirratulus cirratus cingulatus Johnson, 1901
Subspecies Cirratulus cirratus spectabilis (Kinberg, 1866)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Atlantic [details]
Baie de la Seine [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canada [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Japan [details]
Mozambique [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Pacific Ocean [details]
Philippines [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Roscoff [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
USA [details]
West Coast of Norway  [details]
Wimereux [details]

Feedingtype  deposit feeder [details]
Links BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (98 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: northern Gaspe waters, downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Lower North Shore; Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod [details]

Habitat: intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores and seagrass beds. [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
Image 
Cirratulus cirratus (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Cirratulus cirratus (O. F. Müller, 1776)
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Hillewaert, Hans
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129959
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Cirratulus cirratus (O. F. Müller, 1776). 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=129959 on 2013-05-23