Pomatostegus actinoceras Mörch, 1863 
AphiaID: 334598

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Pomatostegus (Genus)

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Pomatostegus Schmarda, 1861
Synonymised taxa		Cymospira actinoceras Mörch in Quatrefages, 1863 Omphalopomopsis langerhansi zeylanica Pillai, 1960 (subjective synonym) Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1865 (subjective synonym) Pomatostegus latiscapus non Marenzeller, sensu Treadwell, 1926 (subjective synonym) Serpula (Pomatostegus) sanguinea Grube, 1870 (subjective synonym) Serpula actinoceros (Mörch, 1863) (objective synonym)
Sources		original description: Mörch, O. A. L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, København, Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]. , available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft [details] basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Pillai, T.G. 2009 Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. Records of the Australian Museum 61(2): 93–199., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Pillai-2009-Rec-Aust-Mus-612-93199/ page(s): 109 [details] source of synonymy: 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] status source: Hove, Harry A. ten, & E.K. Kupriyanova, 2009. Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. Zootaxa 2036, 126 pp., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02036p126.pdf page(s): 78 [details] [full text] from synonym: Pillai, T. Gottfried 1960. Some marine and brackish water serpulid polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences), 3(1): 1-40. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Baird, William 1865. Description of several new species and varieties of tubicolous Annelides =tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 8: 10-22. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1869. Beschreibungen neuer oder weniger bekannter von Hrn. Ehrenberg gesammelter Anneliden des rothen Meeres. Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischer Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1869: 484-521. [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: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1926. Polychaetous annelids from Fiji, Samoa, China and Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 69(2641): 1-20. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen. Memoires de L'Academie Imperiale.des Sciences de St.Petersbourg., Ser. 7, 25(8): 1-300. [details] [view taxon]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Distribution		Indo-West Pacific [details]
Link		To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes		Syntype: Zoological Museum Copenhagen [details] Taxonomic Remark: Until recently, following Hartman, the only recognised species of Pomatostegus was stellatus, occurring circumtropical. Ten Hove & Kupriyanova distinguish 3 species with a more restricted distribution [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334598
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-03-17 10:44:16Z   created   Fauchald, Kristian 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian 2008-11-04 07:12:01Z   changed   ten Hove, Harry
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		Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Pomatostegus actinoceras Mörch, 1863. 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=334598 on 2013-05-22