WoRMS taxon details

Tubificoides insularis (Stephenson, 1922)

137578  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137578)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Clitellata (Class)
  5. Oligochaeta (Subclass)
  6. Tubificida (Order)
  7. Tubificina (Suborder)
  8. Naididae (Family)
  9. Tubificinae (Subfamily)
  10. Tubificoides (Genus)
  11. Tubificoides insularis (Species)
accepted
Species
Peloscolex insularis (Stephenson, 1922) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Tubifex insularis Stephenson, 1922 · unaccepted (Synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Tubifex insularis Stephenson, 1922) Stephenson, J. (1922). XIV.—On some Scottish Oligochæta, with a Note on Encystment in a Common Freshwater Oligochæte, Lumbriculus variegatus (Müll.). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 53(2): 277-295., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800004026
page(s): 290; note: as Tubifex (Peloscolex) insularis [details] OpenAccess publication
Taxonomic remark This species was regarded a junior synonym of T. benedii until Brinkhurst (1985) proved it to be a separate species....  
Taxonomic remark This species was regarded a junior synonym of T. benedii until Brinkhurst (1985) proved it to be a separate species. Earlier literature records of Peloscolex benedii with hairs (as in Brinkhurst 1971) actually belong to T. insularis.  [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2025). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Tubificoides insularis (Stephenson, 1922). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137578 on 2025-05-20
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Erséus, Christer
2005-07-20 07:05:12Z
checked
Timm, Tarmo
2017-06-06 12:45:11Z
changed
van Haaren, Ton
2023-09-24 14:13:18Z
changed
van Haaren, Ton

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Nomenclature

original description (of Tubifex insularis Stephenson, 1922) Stephenson, J. (1922). XIV.—On some Scottish Oligochæta, with a Note on Encystment in a Common Freshwater Oligochæte, Lumbriculus variegatus (Müll.). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 53(2): 277-295., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800004026
page(s): 290; note: as Tubifex (Peloscolex) insularis [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Erséus, C.; Healy, B.M. (2001). Oligochaeta, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 231-234 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

new combination reference Brinkhurst, R.O. (1985). A further contribution to the taxonomy of the genus Tubificoides Lastockin (Oligochaeta: Tubificidae. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 63: 400-410., available online at http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z85-061 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark This species was regarded a junior synonym of T. benedii until Brinkhurst (1985) proved it to be a separate species. Earlier literature records of Peloscolex benedii with hairs (as in Brinkhurst 1971) actually belong to T. insularis.  [details]
    Definitions

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Dutch verborgen kustknobbelworm  [details]
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Peloscolex insularis (Stephenson, 1922))
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tubificoides insularis) 
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 7 proteins) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Tubifex insularis Stephenson, 1922)
To PESI (from synonym Peloscolex insularis (Stephenson, 1922))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (5 records) 
To ITIS