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Polychaeta taxon details

Acmira catherinae (Laubier, 1967) 
AphiaID: 157133

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Paraonidae (Family) > Acmira (Genus)
Status alternate representation (objective synonym)
Record
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Accepted name  Aricidea (Acmira) catherinae Laubier, 1967
Rank Species
Parent Acmira Hartley, 1981 accepted as Aricidea (Acmira) Hartley, 1981
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: 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]

basis of record: Pocklington, P. 1989 MS. Polychaetes of eastern Canada. An illustrated key to polychaetes of eastern Canada including the eastern Arctic. Deparment of Fisheries and Oceans, Mont-Joli, Quebec. 274 p. + I-XXXIII pl. [details]

basis of record: 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, 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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canada [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]

Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to Bay of Fundy, extending to Chesapeake Bay [details]

Habitat: Found from the intertidal zone to 2120 m depth over sand, mud and gravel substrate. [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Predators: haddock [details]

Taxonomy: A. jeffreysii reported by Pettibone from the Atlantic coast of North America has been referred to A. catherinae (Laubier) by (Strelzov 1968). A. catherinae is usually encountered in off shore locations, and seldom in large numbers. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157133
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Date   action   by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-30 19:22:42Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G. (2013). Acmira catherinae (Laubier, 1967). 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=157133 on 2013-05-24