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Polychaeta name detailsSpio calcarea Templeton, 1836
332055 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332055)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine,
recent only
Templeton, R. (1836). A catalogue of the species of annulose animals, and of rayed ones, found in Ireland, as selected from the papers of the late J. Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, with localities, descriptions, and illustrations. <em>The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Metereology.</em> 9: 233-240, 301-305, 417-422, 466-475., available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/magazineofnatura09loud#page/233/mode/1up
page(s): 234, fig. 27a-c; note: indeterminable to genus [details] 
Note British Isles, Northern Ireland, Whitehead,...
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Type locality British Isles, Northern Ireland, Whitehead, Belfast Lough, 54.7572º, -5.7040º (gazetteer), intertidal shoreline in limestone. [details]
Depth range Intertidal shoreline.
Depth range Intertidal shoreline. [details] Description ''Body elongate, joined, on each side series of fasciculi; tentacula rather incrassate, nearly one half as long as the...
Description ''Body elongate, joined, on each side series of fasciculi; tentacula rather incrassate, nearly one half as long as the body, eyes not apparent.'' (Templeton, 1836: 234) [details] Distribution British Isles, Northern Ireland: Whitehead, Belfast Lough.
Distribution British Isles, Northern Ireland: Whitehead, Belfast Lough. [details] Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet calcarea seems to be a lapsus calami of calcaria, feminine of the Latin adjective...
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet calcarea seems to be a lapsus calami of calcaria, feminine of the Latin adjective calcarius and meaning 'of or pertaining to lime', and presumably refers to the habitat of the species, found ''living in minute tubular cavities in the limestone rocks'' at Whitehead, Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland (Templeton, 1836: 234). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Spio calcarea Templeton, 1836. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332055 on 2024-04-24
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Templeton, R. (1836). A catalogue of the species of annulose animals, and of rayed ones, found in Ireland, as selected from the papers of the late J. Templeton, Esq., of Cranmore, with localities, descriptions, and illustrations. <em>The Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology and Metereology.</em> 9: 233-240, 301-305, 417-422, 466-475., available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/magazineofnatura09loud#page/233/mode/1up
page(s): 234, fig. 27a-c; note: indeterminable to genus [details] additional source Söderström, Adolf. (1920). Studien über die Polychätenfamilie Spionidae. <em>[published thesis].</em> Uppsala University, printed Almquist and Wicksells, 286 pp. page(s): 262; note: Söderström regarded 'calcarea' as a 'dead' name, treated it under Polydora ciliata remarks [details] new combination reference Lankester, E.R. (1868). XXIX.— On lithodomous annelids. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4.</em> 1(4): 233-238, 1(5): 392 [note to ed.]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27740941#page/249/mode/1up page(s): 238; note: as Polydora calcarea [details] status source Radashevsky, V.I.; Pankova, V.V. (2006). The morphology of two sibling sympatric <i>Polydora</i> species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Sea of Japan. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 86(2): 245-252., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315406013099 page(s): 247 [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype unlocated, unlikely that types exist, geounit Belfast Lough [details]
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Depth range Intertidal shoreline. [details]Description ''Body elongate, joined, on each side series of fasciculi; tentacula rather incrassate, nearly one half as long as the body, eyes not apparent.'' (Templeton, 1836: 234) [details] Distribution British Isles, Northern Ireland: Whitehead, Belfast Lough. [details] Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet calcarea seems to be a lapsus calami of calcaria, feminine of the Latin adjective calcarius and meaning 'of or pertaining to lime', and presumably refers to the habitat of the species, found ''living in minute tubular cavities in the limestone rocks'' at Whitehead, Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland (Templeton, 1836: 234). [details] Habitat ''Found in the pools on the rocks at Whitehead, Belfast Lough, living in minute tubular cavities in the limestone rocks, the tentacula alone projecting, and kept by the animal in constant motion. Stones every where on our shores are met with perforated by these minute animals.'' (Templeton, 1836: 234) [details] Type locality British Isles, Northern Ireland, Whitehead, Belfast Lough, 54.7572º, -5.7040º (gazetteer), intertidal shoreline in limestone. [details] |