WoRMS taxon details
Circeis armoricana Saint-Joseph, 1894
131198 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131198)
accepted
Species
Serpula sinistrorsa Montagu, 1803 · unaccepted (subjective senior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1894). Les Annélides polychètes des côtes de Dinard. Troisième Partie. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, Série 7.</em> 17: 1-395, plates I-XIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35662416
page(s): 350, plate XIII fig. 387 [details]
page(s): 350, plate XIII fig. 387 [details]
Note Dinard, Brittany, France
Unreviewed
Type locality Dinard, Brittany, France [details]
Distribution Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the...
Distribution Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Circeis armoricana Saint-Joseph, 1894. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131198 on 2025-06-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1894). Les Annélides polychètes des côtes de Dinard. Troisième Partie. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, Série 7.</em> 17: 1-395, plates I-XIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35662416
page(s): 350, plate XIII fig. 387 [details]
original description (of Serpula sinistrorsa Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 504-505 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 350, plate XIII fig. 387 [details]
original description (of Serpula sinistrorsa Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 504-505 [no figures] [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Knight-Jones, P.; Knight-Jones, E. W. (1977). Taxonomy and ecology of British Spirorbidae (Polychaeta). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 57(2): 453-499., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540002186x
page(s): 468, figure 5 a-m; note: description of specimens on lobsters Homarus and Palinurus, plus creation of two subspecies - fragilis on Laminaria & paguri on shells occupied by Eupagurus bernhardus [details]
page(s): 468, figure 5 a-m; note: description of specimens on lobsters Homarus and Palinurus, plus creation of two subspecies - fragilis on Laminaria & paguri on shells occupied by Eupagurus bernhardus [details]
Other
additional source
Rzhavsky, A. V. 1992. [A review of Circeinae and Spirorbinae (Polychaeta, Spirorbidae) of the Russian Seas with description of the new species Circeis gurjanovae sp.n.]. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 71(7): 5-13. [details]
additional source Knight-Jones, Phyllis, Knight-Jones, E. Wyn and Dales, R.P. 1979. Spirorbidae (Polychaeta sedentaria) from Alaska to Panama. Journal of Zoology, London 189: 419-458. [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS)
note: checklist listing [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Knight-Jones, Phyllis, Knight-Jones, E. Wyn and Dales, R.P. 1979. Spirorbidae (Polychaeta sedentaria) from Alaska to Panama. Journal of Zoology, London 189: 419-458. [details]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS)
note: checklist listing [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors






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Syntype Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 1089-1091 [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details]Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Type locality Dinard, Brittany, France [details]