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Polychaeta taxon details

Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767) 
AphiaID: 130769

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Polynoinae (Subfamily) > Harmothoe (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856
Synonymised
taxa
  Aphrodita cirrata Müller, 1776 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita imbricata Linnaeus, 1767 (objective synonym)
Aphrodita lepidota Pallas, 1766 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita lepidota minuta Pennant, 1777 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita plana Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1788 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita varians Dalyell, 1853 (subjective synonym)
Aphrodita violacea Ström in Malmgren, 1865 (subjective synonym)
Harmothoe hartmanae Pettibone, 1948 (subjective synonym)
Harmothoe imbricata incerta (Bobretzky, 1881) (junior synonym)
Harmothoe levis Treadwell, 1937 (subjective synonym)
Harmothoe maxillospinosa de Saint-Joseph, 1888 (synonym)
Harmothoe unicolor Baird, 1865 (subjective synonym)
Harmothoe vesiculosa Ditlevsen, 1917 (subjective synonym)
Lepidonote cirrata Örsted, 1843 (subjective synonym)
Polynoe (Harmothoe) imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767) (objective synonym)
Polynoe complanata Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Polynoe incerta Bobretzky, 1881 (subjective synonym)
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: Hartman, O. 1938. The types of the polychaete worms of the families Polynoidae and Polyodontidae in the United States National Museum and the description of a new genus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 86(3046): 107-134. [details]

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: Johnston, George. 1865. A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement], available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291 [details]

basis of record: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(1): 51-110. [details]

basis of record: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(3): 355-410. [details]

basis of record: McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A monograph of British Annelids. vol.1. pt.2. Polychaeta Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. Ray Society of London, 1(l2): 215-442. [details]

basis of record: Pettibone, Marian H. 1963. Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 227(1): 1-356. [details]

basis of record: Fishelson, L. & F. Rullier (1969). Quelques Annelides Polychetes de la Mer Rouge. Israel Journal of Zoology 18: 49-117 [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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: 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: Nygren, Arne; Norlinder, Erika; Panova, Marina ; Pleijel, Fredrik. 2011. Colour polymorphism in the polychaete Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767). Marine Biology Research 7(1): 54 - 62. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451001003713555 [details]

source of synonymy: Imajima, Minoru 1997. Polychaetous annelids from Sagami Bay and Sagami Sea collected by the Emperor Showa of Japan and deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo. Families Polynoidae and Acoetidae. National Science Museum Monographs, 13: 1-131. [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: Ruff, R. Eugene 1995. Family Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867. 105-166. IN: Blake, James A., Hilbig, Brigitte, and Scott, Paul H. (Ed.). Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 5 - The Annelida Part 2. Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Syllidae and scale-bearing families), Amphinomida, and Eunicida. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara. [details]

from synonym: Barnich, R.; Fiege, D. (2000). Revision of the Mediterranean species of Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856 and Lagisca Malmgren, 1865 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Polynoinae) with descriptions of a new genus and a new species. Journal of Natural History. 34: 1889-1938. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Dauvin, J.-C.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gentil, F. (2003). Liste actualisée des espèces d’Annélides Polychètes présentes en Manche [An up to date list of polychaetous annelids from the English Channel]. Cah. Biol. Mar. 44(1): 67-95 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Saint-Joseph, Antoine de 1888. Les Annélides polychètes des côtes de Dinard, pt. 2. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, 5: 141-338,plates6. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pettibone, Marian H. 1948. Two new species of polychaete worms of the family Polynoidae from Puget Sound and San Juan Archipelago. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 38(12): 412-414. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Marenzeller, Emil von 1879. Südjapanische Anneliden. I. Amphinomea, Aphroditea, Lycoridea, Phyllodocea, Hesionea, Syllidea, Eunicea, Glycerea, Sternaspidea, Chaetopterea, Cirratulea, Amphictenea. Denkschriften der Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen classe der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 41(2): 109-154. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Baird, William 1865. Contributions toward a monograph of the species of Annelides belonging to the Aphroditacea, containing a list of the known species, and a description of some new species contained in the national collection of the British Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London 8: 172-202., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601914 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Ditlevsen, Hjalmar. 1917. Annelids. I. 1-71. H. Hagerup. Copenhagen. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1937. Polychaetous annelids collected by Captain Robert A. Bartlett in Greenland, Fox Basin, and Labrador. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 27(1): 23-36. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Örsted, Anders Sandoe. 1843. Annulatorum danicorum conspectus. Volume Fasc. 1 Maricolae (Quæstio ab universitate Hafniensi ad solvendum proposita et proemio ornata). 1-52. Librariae Wahlianae. Hafniae (Copenhagen)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/11849 [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: Bobretzky, N. 1881. [On the annelids of the Black Sea]. Kiev odschestva estest, Zapisky, 6: 183-212. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pallas P.S. (1766). Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cTQVAAAAQAAJ [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: 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] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1788). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta reformata. Cura J.F. Gmelin. G.E. Beer, Lipsiae 1(5-6):2225-3910. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Pennant, T., (1777) British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea: i-viii, 1-154, Plates 1-93. London. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch gladschubbige zeerups  [details]
German gemeiner Schuppenwurm  [details]
Direct child
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Subspecies Harmothoe imbricata incerta (Bobretzky, 1881) accepted as Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Baie de la Seine [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
East Africa [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Golfe Normanno-Breton (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Plymouth [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
Roscoff [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spuikom [details]
Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wadden Sea [details]
Zeeland [details]

Feedingtype  carnivore [details]
Host of  Selioides bolbroei Levinsen, 1878 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Herpyllobius haddoni Lützen, 1964 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (141 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (123 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Arctic; Labrador to New Jersey; Bering Sea to s. California; Japan, Yellow Sea, Indian Ocean; Iceland and Norway to Mediterranean and Adriatic [details]

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

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]

Reproduction: Eggs are brooded under scales of female. [details]
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Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767)
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130769
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2005-06-10 19:57:34Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-03-05 10:53:35Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-01-23 08:53:40Z  checked  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767). 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=130769 on 2013-05-18