Amphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855) 
AphiaID: 157166

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Terebellinae (Subfamily) > Amphitrite (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Amphitrite O.F. Müller, 1771
Synonymised taxa		Neoamphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855) (combination not authenticated) Terebella ornata Leidy, 1855 (objective synonym)
Sources		basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: 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] 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] 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] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] status source: Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos 2008. Review of Some Terebelliform Polychaetes (Polychaeta: Terebelliformia) at the Yale Peabody Museum. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 9(2): 209-234. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3374/0079-032X-49.2.209 page(s): 219 [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Leidy, J.. 1855. Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine Invertebrate fauna of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, New Series 3(2) no. 11: 135-152, pls. 10-11. (xii-1855) [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details]
Links		To Biodiversity Heritage Library (93 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 57 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection To ITIS
Notes		Distribution: Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian, including Cobscook Bay. [details] Taxonomy: Subfamily: Amphitritinae, according to Trott (2004). [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157166
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2005-05-23 07:30:30Z   created   Cuvelier, Daphne 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian
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		Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Amphitrite ornata (Leidy, 1855). 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=157166 on 2013-05-25