Polychaeta taxon details
Nephtys caeca (Fabricius, 1780) AphiaID: 130355
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 |
Synonymised
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Nephthys caeca (Fabricius, 1780) (generic spelling variant)
Nephthys hirsuta Dalyell, 1853
Nephthys ingens Stimpson, 1854
Nephthys margaritacea Johnston, 1835
Nephthys nudipes Ehlers, 1868 (subjective synonym)
Nephthys oerstedii Quatrefages, 1866
Nephtys bononensis Quatrefages, 1850 (subjective synonym)
Nephtys caeca var. ciliata McIntosh, 1908 (life cycle phase )
Nereis (Nephtys) lineata Dalyell, 1853
Nereis caeca Fabricius, 1780
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original description: Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica: systematice sistens animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quod nomen specificium. Hafniae et Lipsiae: Copenhagen, Denmark. XVI, 452, [2] f. pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [full text]
basis of record: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [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: McIntosh, W.C. 1908. A monograph of British Annelids. Ray Society of London, II. Part I. Polychaeta. Nephthydidae to Syllidae: 1-232., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McInA [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: 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: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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]
redescription: Vieitez, J.M.; M.A.; Alós, C.; Parapar, J.; Besteiro, C.; Moreira, J.; Nunez, J.; Laborda, J.; and San Martin, G. 2004. Annelida Polychaeta I. Fauna Iberica. Ramos, M.A. et al (Eds.). Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, Vol. 25:1-530 [details]
from synonym: Quatrefages, Armand de 1850. Études sur les types inferieurs de l'embranchement des Annelés. Sur la circulation des Annelides. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, Ser. sér. 3, 14: 281-398. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Dalyell, J.G. 1853. The Powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation or, observations on life amidst the various of the humbler tribes of animated nature with practical comments and illustrations. 2 Edition. 1-359. John van Voorst. London. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Stimpson, W., 1854. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.— Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 6: 1-66, Plates 1-3. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Johnston, George 1835. Illustrations in British Zoology. 37. Néphtys Cuvier. Magazine of Natural History, London, 8: 341-343. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Volume II. xx, 269-748. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2081 [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Hartman, O. 1950. Polychaetous annelids. Goniadidae, Glyceridae and Nephtyidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 15(1): 1-181. [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Ravara, Ascensão ; Cunha, Marina R. ; Pleijel, Fredrik 2010: Nephtyidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from southern Europe. Zootaxa 2682: 1-68.
, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02682p068.pdf
page(s): 35 [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Quatrefages, Armand de. 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 1. 1-588. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. [some vol.2 species are also linked here but see also source 51472]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Fabricius, Otto 1780. [POLYCHAETA & ANNELIDA DATA. p.266-315; 374-384] Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens, Animalia Groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificum, triviale, vernaculumque synonyma auctorum plurium, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum, capturamque singuli prout detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes: Hafniae [Copenhagen] et Lipsiae., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13489 [details] [view taxon]
from synonym: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(3): 355-410. [details] [view taxon]
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]
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Variety Nephtys caeca var. ciliata McIntosh, 1908 accepted as Nephtys caeca (Fabricius, 1780)
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Distribution | | Baie de la Seine [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Golfe Normanno-Breton [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Roscoff [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux [details]
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carnivore [details]
predator [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Biology: The sexes are separate and individuals breed several times over a number of years in the periods April-May and August. The larvae are planktonic. N. caeca starts reproducing in its second year of life and lives for a period of about 7 years.
N. caeca is a predator moving through the top layer of the sediment in search for molluscs, crustaceans and other polychaetes. The species is eaten by juveniles of haddock and thornback (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Wolff, 1973; Curtis, 1977; Fauchald & Jumars, 1979; Sips, 1988; Fish & Fish, 1989; Olive & Morgan, 1991). [details]
Distribution: Arctic to Gulf of St. Lawrence to off Rhode Island [details]
Distribution: N. caeca occurs in small numbers in a broad region parallel to the coast. lt is even more scarce in the offshore part of the Dutch Continental Shelf, where it is only recorded from the Dogger Bank, the Cleaver Bank and the eastern part of the Oyster Ground. The species also occurs in the low intertidal zone of the Delta area and the Wadden Sea. Because of its size the biomass of N. caeca can be locally important. [details]
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Habitat: The species occurs in a wide variety of sediments ranging from coarse to fine muddy sand. [details]
Morphology: A member of the family Nephtyidae that can reach a considerable size, viz. maximally 200 mm long with up to 150 segments. The head is relatively small and rectangular, with short antennae on the frontal corners giving it a T-shape. Like all nephtyids it has a large eversible, muscular proboscis with internal jaws. The first segment is reduced and bears two pairs of finger-like cirri. The rest of the body is square in cross section with prominent, powerful bilobed parapodia with curved gilis in between the lobes. The body is whitish to greenish brown, with a lightly iridescent cuticle and red gills (Hartmann-Schröder, 1971; Sips, 1988; Fish & Fish, 1989; Hayward & Ryland, 1990; Rainer, 1991). [details]
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Nephtys caeca (small and large)
added on 2011-04-19 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ( )
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Nephtys caeca (conserved)
added on 2011-04-19 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130355 |
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| | | Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Nephtys caeca (Fabricius, 1780). 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=130355 on 2013-05-18 |
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