WoRMS taxon details
Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943
153847 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153847)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Loosanoff, Victor L. and Engle, James B. 1943. Polydora in Oysters Suspended in the Water. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 85(1): 69-78., available online at http://www.biolbull.org/content/85/1/69.full.pdf+html [details]
Nomenclature OPINION 1974 (Case 3080)
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen...
Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 (Annelida, Polychaeta): specific name...
Nomenclature OPINION 1974 (Case 3080)
Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 (Annelida, Polychaeta): specific name conserved by a ruling that it is not to be treated as a replacement for P. caeca Webster, 1879, and a lectotype designated for P. websteri [details]
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen...
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), 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), middle North Shore (from Sept -Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; to Cape Hatteras [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153847 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Loosanoff, Victor L. and Engle, James B. 1943. Polydora in Oysters Suspended in the Water. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, 85(1): 69-78., available online at http://www.biolbull.org/content/85/1/69.full.pdf+html [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
redescription Read, Geoffrey B. 2010. Comparison and history of Polydora websteri and P. haswelli (Polychaeta: Spionidae) as mud-blister worms in New Zealand shellfish. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 44(2): 83–100.
page(s): 91 [details]
status source ICZN [International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]. (2001). Opinion 1974. Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 (Annelida, Polychaeta): specific name conserved by a ruling that it is not to be treated as a replacement for P. caeca Webster, 1879, and a lectotype designated for P. websteri. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 58(2): 152-153., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33818001 [details]
redescription Read, Geoffrey B. 2010. Comparison and history of Polydora websteri and P. haswelli (Polychaeta: Spionidae) as mud-blister worms in New Zealand shellfish. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 44(2): 83–100.
page(s): 91 [details]
status source ICZN [International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature]. (2001). Opinion 1974. Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 (Annelida, Polychaeta): specific name conserved by a ruling that it is not to be treated as a replacement for P. caeca Webster, 1879, and a lectotype designated for P. websteri. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 58(2): 152-153., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33818001 [details]
Other
context source (Introduced species)
Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. <em>BioInvasions Records.</em> 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors 
[request]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Rodewald, Nicola; Snyman, Reinette; Simon, Carol A. (2021). Worming its way in—<em>Polydora</em> <em>websteri</em> (Annelida: Spionidae) increases the number of non-indigenous shell-boring polydorin pests of cultured molluscs in South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4969(2): 255-279., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4969.2.2 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Davinack, Andrew A. (2023). Can ChatGPT be leveraged for taxonomic investigations? Potential and limitations of a new technology. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5270(2): 347-350., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5270.2.12/50532
note: " I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT could accurately distinguish the superficial morphological differences between Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 and Polydora neoca...
[details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 81-82 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1961). Polychaetous annelids from California. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 25: 1-226., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5214802
page(s): 99-100, plates 16-17 [details]
additional source Imajima, M.; Sato, W. (1984). A new species of <i>Polydora</i> (Polychaeta, Spionidae) collected from Abashiri Bay, Hokkaido. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology).</em> 10(2): 57-62., available online at http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004311620/en
page(s): 61-62, figs. 18-20, table 1 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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 Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
[request]additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Rodewald, Nicola; Snyman, Reinette; Simon, Carol A. (2021). Worming its way in—<em>Polydora</em> <em>websteri</em> (Annelida: Spionidae) increases the number of non-indigenous shell-boring polydorin pests of cultured molluscs in South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4969(2): 255-279., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4969.2.2 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Davinack, Andrew A. (2023). Can ChatGPT be leveraged for taxonomic investigations? Potential and limitations of a new technology. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5270(2): 347-350., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5270.2.12/50532
note: " I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT could accurately distinguish the superficial morphological differences between Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 and Polydora neoca...
" I wanted to determine whether ChatGPT could accurately distinguish the superficial morphological differences between Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 and Polydora neocaecaWilliams & Radashevsky, 1999"
[request]additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 81-82 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hartman, Olga. (1961). Polychaetous annelids from California. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 25: 1-226., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5214802
page(s): 99-100, plates 16-17 [details]
additional source Imajima, M.; Sato, W. (1984). A new species of <i>Polydora</i> (Polychaeta, Spionidae) collected from Abashiri Bay, Hokkaido. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology).</em> 10(2): 57-62., available online at http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004311620/en
page(s): 61-62, figs. 18-20, table 1 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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 Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. <em>Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B.</em> 68: p. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature OPINION 1974 (Case 3080)
Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943 (Annelida, Polychaeta): specific name conserved by a ruling that it is not to be treated as a replacement for P. caeca Webster, 1879, and a lectotype designated for P. websteri [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species impact in Australian part of the Tasman Sea (Marine Region) : Loss of aquaculture/commercial/recreational harvest or gain [details]Introduced species vector dispersal in Australian part of the Tasman Sea (Marine Region) : Fisheries: accidental with deliberate translocations of fish or shellfish [details]
Introduced species vector dispersal in Romanian part of the Black Sea : Shipping [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), 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), middle North Shore (from Sept -Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; to Cape Hatteras [details]Habitat intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
