Eucranta villosa Malmgren, 1866 
AphiaID: 130740

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Polynoinae (Subfamily) > Eucranta (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Typetaxon of		Eucranta Malmgren, 1866
Parent		Eucranta Malmgren, 1866
Synonymised taxa		Eupolynoe occidentalis McIntosh, 1874 (subjective synonym) Harmothoe villosa (Malmgren, 1866) (synonym)
Sources		original description: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(3): 355-410. [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: Hartman, O. 1944. New England Annelida. Part 2. Including the unpublished plates by Verrill with reconstructed captions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 82(7): 331-343. [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: 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: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1926. Polychaetous annelids from Fiji, Samoa, China and Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 69(2641): 1-20. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1874. On the Annelida of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13 (4th series) issue 76 part 34: 261-270., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342649 [details] [view taxon]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subspecies Eucranta villosa notialis Monro, 1936 accepted as Eucranta notialis Monro, 1936
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] North West Atlantic [details] Sweden (from specimen) United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Specimens		Holotype (from synonym): USNM , locality Samoa (Pacific Ocean) [view taxon] Unknown type: SMNH , locality Sweden (Atlantic Ocean, western Sweden) [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary; Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait) [details] Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130740
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Bellan, Gérard 2007-01-22 09:31:04Z   changed   Barnich, Ruth 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian
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		Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Eucranta villosa Malmgren, 1866. 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=130740 on 2013-05-22