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Polychaeta taxon details

Glycera americana Leidy, 1855 
AphiaID: 157388

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Glyceriformia (Suborder) > Glyceridae (Family) > Glycera (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Glycera Savigny, 1818
Synonymised
taxa
  Glycera cirrata Fauvel, 1932 (subjective synonym)
Glycera corrugata Baird, 1863 (subjective synonym)
Glycera edentata Hansen, 1882 (subjective synonym)
Glycera jucunda Kinberg, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Glycera laevis Kinberg, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Glycera misakiensis Izuka, 1912 (subjective synonym)
Glycera opisthobranchiata Marenzeller, 1879 (subjective synonym)
Glycera ovigera Schmarda, 1861 (subjective synonym)
Glycera peruviana Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
Glycera rugosa Johnson, 1901 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: 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]

basis of record: Augener, H. 1934. Polychaeten aus den Zoologischen Museen von Leiden und Amsterdam. IV Schluss. Zoologische Mededeelingen s'Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie Leiden, 17: 67-160. [details]

basis of record: Augener, H. 1924. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XVIII. Polychaeta II. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. I. Errantia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn, 75: 241-441. [details]

basis of record: Hartman, O. 1938. Annotated list of the types of polychaetous annelids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 85(1): 3-31. [details]

basis of record: Hartman, O. 1948. The marine annelids erected by Kinberg. With some notes on some other types in the Swedish State Museum. Arkiv för Zoologi, 42A(1): 1-137. [details]

basis of record: Hartman, O. 1950. Polychaetous annelids. Goniadidae, Glyceridae and Nephtyidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 15(1): 1-181. [details]

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: Imajima, Minoru and Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 26: 1-452. [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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]

redescription: Hilbig, Brigitte 1994. Family Glyceridae Grube, 1850. pages 197-214. IN: Blake, J.A. and Hilbig, Brigitte. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 4 - The Annelida Part 1. Oligochaeta and Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Phyllodocidae to Paralacydoniidae). Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]

from synonym: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 12(1): 1-262. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1857 (pub. 1858). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quac in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A. S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. [Part 2] Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn 1857: 158-166., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35800010 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Baird, William 1863. Descriptions of several new species of worms belonging to the Annelida Errantia and Sedentaria or Tubicola of Milne Edwards. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1863: 106-110. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hansen G. Armauer 1882. Recherches sur les annélides receueillies par M. le professeur Édouard van Benedon pendant son voyage au Brésil et à la Plata. Memoires Couronnes et Memoires des Savants Etrangers publies par L'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 44(3): 1-29. Plates 1-7. (pagination restarts within issues), available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29048#page/437/mode/1up [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Kinberg, J. G. H. 1866. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 23(9): 337-357. [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: Kinberg, J. G. H. 1866. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 23(4): 97-103. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Izuka, Akira 1912. The errantiate Polychaeta of Japan. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, 30(2): 1-262. [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: Schmarda, Ludwig K. 1861. Neue wirbellose Thiere beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte) Turbellarian, Rotatorien un Anneliden. 1-164. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Glasby, C.; Read, G. (2009). Polychaeta, Myzostomida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Johnson, Herbert Parlin 1901. The Polychaeta of the Puget Sound region. Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History, 29(18): 381-437. [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]

Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, Rhode Island [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157388
Taxonomic
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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). Glycera americana 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=157388 on 2013-05-23