Aglaophamus circinata (Verrill in Smith & Harger, 1874) (new combination reference)
Alentiana aurantiaca (Verrill, 1885) (additional source)
Anaitides maculata (Linnaeus, 1767) accepted as
Phyllodoce maculata (Linnaeus, 1767) (additional source)
Anaitis speciosa Webster, 1879 accepted as
Paranaitis speciosa (Webster, 1879) (source of synonymy)
Aphrodita hastata Moore, 1905 (identification resource)
Aricia kupfferi Ehlers, 1874 accepted as
Phylo kupfferi (Ehlers, 1874) (new combination reference)
Disoma Örsted, 1844 accepted as
Trochochaeta Levinsen, 1884 (source of synonymy)
Eteone lactea Claparède, 1868 accepted as
Hypereteone lactea (Claparède, 1868) (source of synonymy)
Eteone longa (Fabricius, 1780) (source of synonymy)
Eulalia annulata Verrill, 1873 accepted as
Eulalia viridis (Linnaeus, 1767) (source of synonymy)
Eulalia bilineata (Johnston, 1840) (source of synonymy)
Eulalia viridis (Linnaeus, 1767) (additional source)
Eumida sanguinea (Örsted, 1843) (source of synonymy)
Eunice norvegica (Linnaeus, 1767) (source of synonymy)
Euphrosine armadillo M. Sars, 1851 (additional source)
Euphrosine borealis Örsted, 1842 (additional source)
Euphrosyne branchiata Treadwell, 1939 accepted as
Euphrosine armadillo M. Sars, 1851 (source of synonymy)
Eusyllis blomstrandi Malmgren, 1867 (source of synonymy)
Exogone verugera (Claparède, 1868) (additional source)
Gattyana cirrhosa (Pallas, 1766) (redescription)
Harmothoe fragilis Moore, 1910 (additional source)
Harmothoe hartmanae Pettibone, 1948 accepted as
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767) (source of synonymy)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767) (additional source)
Laetmonice filicornis Kinberg, 1856 (additional source)
Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828 (taxonomy source)
Lumbrineris brevipes (McIntosh, 1903) accepted as
Cenogenus brevipes (McIntosh, 1903) (additional source)
Lumbrineris fragilis (O.F. Müller, 1776) accepted as
Scoletoma fragilis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (source of synonymy)
Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813) (additional source)
Nemidia Malmgren, 1865 accepted as
Enipo Malmgren, 1865 (source of synonymy)
Nephtys incisa Malmgren, 1865 (additional source)
Nephtys paradoxa Malm, 1874 (additional source)
Odontosyllis fulgurans (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) (source of synonymy)
Orbinia (Phylo) kupfferi (Ehlers, 1874) accepted as
Phylo kupfferi (Ehlers, 1874) (additional source)
Paralacydonia Fauvel, 1913 (taxonomy source)
Paralacydoniidae Pettibone, 1963 (original description)
Paranaitis speciosa (Webster, 1879) (additional source)
Sphaerodorum gracilis (Rathke, 1843) (source of synonymy)
Sphaerosyllis brevifrons Webster & Benedict, 1884 (source of synonymy)
Sphaerosyllis erinaceus Claparède, 1863 accepted as
Erinaceusyllis erinaceus (Claparède, 1863) (additional source)
Sthenelais limicola (Ehlers, 1864) (additional source)
Syllis cornuta Rathke, 1843 (source of synonymy)
Tomopteris helgolandica Greeff, 1879 represented as
Tomopteris (Johnstonella) helgolandica (Greeff, 1879) (source of synonymy)
Trochochaeta Levinsen, 1884 (taxonomy source)
Trochochaetidae Pettibone, 1963 (original description)
- Functional group macrobenthos
- Life stage Adult
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- Body size (qualitative) 2.0 - 200 mm
- Life stage Adult
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Depth range
Low water to about 30 m. Specimens collected swimming at the surface. [details]
Diagnosis
ORBINIINAE with pointed prostomium and branchiae first present from chaetiger 5-7. Posterior thoracic parapodia ... [details]
Distribution
Atlantic Ocean: from Massachusetts to North Carolina (USA). [details]
Distribution
Atlantic coast of the USA. Records from other areas need confirmation. [details]
Editor's comment
Included in the three original taxa of new genus Lumbrineris, and Pettibone (1963: 257) designated it as the type ... [details]
Etymology
The specific epithet longicirrata refers to the fact that "the dorsal cirri [...] are very long for the genus" ... [details]
Grammatical gender
Pettibone (1963, 1976) does not state the genus gender as she usually did. It is feminine (chaeta is transliterated ... [details]
Habitat
In thicky muddy tubes of Sabaco elongatus (Verrill, 1873) (as Maldanopsis elongata), and on muddy and sandy ... [details]
Homonymy
Disoma Örsted, 1844 is a junior homonym to protozoan Disoma Ehrenberg 1831 (pls. 1828) Sym. Phys., Phyt., sign. c. ... [details]
Nomenclature
Taxonomists in the 19thC often thought it was a good idea to replace the names previously used by others when they ... [details]
Nomenclature
See comments on Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818. In brief Neanthes caudata as used by Delle Chiaje is a ... [details]
Publication date
Inadvertently prematurely published in 1945. The full description is not until the 1950 paper, which Hartman ... [details]
Reproduction
It lacks a heteronereis stage, but immature and mature specimens were found swimming at the surface of Woods Hole ... [details]
Reproduction
Sexually mature females found in May (south of Kattegat), August (coastal waters of North America) and in August to ... [details]
Spelling
Nereis arenaceodonta is a misspelling originally introduced by Pettibone (1963: 162) for the species Nereis ... [details]
Status
"Since Pettibone (1953) synonymized the type species of the genus Lagisca, L. rarispina (Sars, 1861), with H. ... [details]
Synonymy
Pettibone (1963) placed both Ethocles typicus and Skardaria fragmentata as Apistobranchus tullbergi. Thus the ... [details]
Synonymy
The species was considered as a synonymy of Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1853) by various authors (e.g.: Hartman, 1959; ... [details]
Synonymy
Pettibone (1963) placed both Ethocles typicus and Skardaria fragmentata as Apistobranchus tullbergi. Thus the ... [details]
Taxonomy
Amblyosyllis cincinnata was synonymized with A. finmarchica by Pettibone (1963), but was posteriorly considered to ... [details]
Taxonomy
Chamberlin (1919: 167) regarded the genus Myrianida Milne-Edwards, 1845 as synonymous with Myriana Savigny, 1822: ... [details]
Taxonomy
Replacement name created by Treadwell (1941) for Nereis (Neanthes) paucidentata Treadwell, 1939, and treated as a ... [details]
Taxonomy
Pettibone (1957, 1963) considered the genus Phylo Kinberg, 1866 as a subgenus of Orbinia Quatrefages, 1866. ... [details]
Taxonomy
Sphaerosyllis brevifrons was synonymized with S. erinaceus (now in the genus Erinaceusyllis) by Pettibone (1963), ... [details]
Type designation
Type of the genus Syllis clavata Claparède, 1863, by subsequent designation (Pettibone, 1963: 133). [details]
Type species
Type species Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus 1758.
Linnaeus presented two species, Aphrodita squamata and Aphrodita ... [details]
Type species
The type species of Lumbrineris is Nereis ebranchiata Pallas, 1788, designated as type by Pettibone (1963: 257), ... [details]
Type species
The type species of Odontosyllis is O. gibba Claparède, 1863 by monotypy. However, the type species is wrongly ... [details]