WoRMS taxon details
Eunice tubifex Crossland, 1904
209827 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209827)
accepted
Species
Euniphysa tubifex (Crossland, 1904) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Crossland, Cyril. (1904). [part 3] The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - The Polychaeta. Part III. With which is incorporated the account of Stanley Gardiner's collection made in the Maldive Archipelago in the year 1899. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 74(1): 287-330, plates XX-XXII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31887374
page(s): 303, plate 21, figures 1-8 [details]
page(s): 303, plate 21, figures 1-8 [details]
Note Puopo Islet, Kokotoni Harbour, and Zanzibar...
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Type locality Puopo Islet, Kokotoni Harbour, and Zanzibar harbour, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Eunice tubifex Crossland, 1904. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209827 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Crossland, Cyril. (1904). [part 3] The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - The Polychaeta. Part III. With which is incorporated the account of Stanley Gardiner's collection made in the Maldive Archipelago in the year 1899. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 74(1): 287-330, plates XX-XXII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31887374
page(s): 303, plate 21, figures 1-8 [details]
new combination reference Miura, Tomoyuki. (1986). Japanese polychaetes of the genera Eunice and Euniphysa: Taxonomy and branchial distribution patterns. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 31(3): 269-325., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2433/176125
page(s): 312; note: transfer to Euniphysa, but Shen & Wu (1991) and Fauchald (1992) disagreed and placed the species as a Eunice [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 303, plate 21, figures 1-8 [details]
new combination reference Miura, Tomoyuki. (1986). Japanese polychaetes of the genera Eunice and Euniphysa: Taxonomy and branchial distribution patterns. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 31(3): 269-325., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2433/176125
page(s): 312; note: transfer to Euniphysa, but Shen & Wu (1991) and Fauchald (1992) disagreed and placed the species as a Eunice [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
Fauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 523: 1-422., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.523 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Zenetos, A., M.E. Cinar, M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou, J.G. Harmelin, G. Furnari, F. Andaloro, N. Bellou, N. Streftaris & H. Zibrowius. (2005). Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 6 (2): 63-118., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273213810_Annotated_list_of_marine_alien_species_in_the_Mediterranean_with_records_of_the_worst_invasive_species [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Habitat Eunice tubifex has a distinctive tube structure although Crossland does not give a figure of it. Evidently one of the eunicids which are associated with zigzag tubes. Crossland does not use that term but he makes a comparison with Eunice tibiana. Crossland comments: "One of the five species which make stiff leathery tubes with lateral openings." and "The openings of the tubes are arranged more or less alternately on either side as in E. tibiana Ehl, but are less numerous and the tubes are straighter. The basal part of the tube is very like the fragment figured by Ehlers (l. c. Taf. 22. fig. 1 ), which shows well their charteristic texture and surface. Although the tubewall is not thicker than ordinary brown paper and is free from foreign material, it is perfectly opaque and so tough and elastic that the tubes are cut or torn open with some difficulty." The tubes were attached to anchor chain, and to rock [details]Type locality Puopo Islet, Kokotoni Harbour, and Zanzibar harbour, Zanzibar Island, Tanzania [details]
