WoRMS taxon details
Lanice Malmgren, 1866
129697 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129697)
accepted
Genus
Nereis conchilega Pallas, 1766 accepted as Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766) (type by monotypy)
Wartelia Giard, 1878 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species Lanice abyssalis Caullery, 1944
Species Lanice amphelisso Hutchings, 2007
Species Lanice arakani Hissmann, 2000
Species Lanice auricula Hutchings, 1990
Species Lanice bidewa Hutchings & Glasby, 1988
Species Lanice caulleryi Holthe, 1986
Species Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766)
Species Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934
Species Lanice flabellum (Baird, 1865)
Species Lanice haitiana Augener, 1922
Species Lanice kellyslateri Lavesque, Daffe, Londoño-Mesa & Hutchings, 2021
Species Lanice marionensis Branch, 1998
Species Lanice seticornis (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Lanice sinata Hutchings & Glasby, 1990
Species Lanice socialis (Willey, 1905)
Species Lanice viridis Nogueira, Hutchings & Carrerette, 2015
Species Lanice wollebaeki Caullery, 1944
Species Lanice expansa Treadwell, 1906 accepted as Pista expansa (Treadwell, 1906)
Species Lanice fauveli Caullery, 1944 accepted as Lanice caulleryi Holthe, 1986 (replaced primary homonym)
Species Lanice heterobranchia Johnson, 1901 accepted as Eupolymnia heterobranchia (Johnson, 1901) (superseded original combination)
Species Lanice triloba Fischli, 1900 accepted as Eupolymnia triloba (Fischli, 1900) (superseded original combination)
Species Lanice amphelisso Hutchings, 2007
Species Lanice arakani Hissmann, 2000
Species Lanice auricula Hutchings, 1990
Species Lanice bidewa Hutchings & Glasby, 1988
Species Lanice caulleryi Holthe, 1986
Species Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766)
Species Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934
Species Lanice flabellum (Baird, 1865)
Species Lanice haitiana Augener, 1922
Species Lanice kellyslateri Lavesque, Daffe, Londoño-Mesa & Hutchings, 2021
Species Lanice marionensis Branch, 1998
Species Lanice seticornis (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Lanice sinata Hutchings & Glasby, 1990
Species Lanice socialis (Willey, 1905)
Species Lanice viridis Nogueira, Hutchings & Carrerette, 2015
Species Lanice wollebaeki Caullery, 1944
Species Lanice expansa Treadwell, 1906 accepted as Pista expansa (Treadwell, 1906)
Species Lanice fauveli Caullery, 1944 accepted as Lanice caulleryi Holthe, 1986 (replaced primary homonym)
Species Lanice heterobranchia Johnson, 1901 accepted as Eupolymnia heterobranchia (Johnson, 1901) (superseded original combination)
Species Lanice triloba Fischli, 1900 accepted as Eupolymnia triloba (Fischli, 1900) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 379-380 [details]
page(s): 379-380 [details]
Note The type species is Nereis conchilega Pallas...
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Type species The type species is Nereis conchilega Pallas 1766 by monotypy. [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description, uncertain. The name Lanice may be derived from the Latin noun lanitium ot lanicium,...
Etymology Not stated in the original description, uncertain. The name Lanice may be derived from the Latin noun lanitium ot lanicium, meaning 'wool' and probably making reference to the anterior region of the worm, where the coiled tentacles may resemble a tuft of sheep wool, or it may refer to the historical character Lanice, Alexander's The Great wet-nurse. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2023). World Polychaeta Database. Lanice Malmgren, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129697 on 2023-06-02
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original description
Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 379-380 [details]
original description (of Wartelia Giard, 1878) Giard, Alfred. (1878). Sur les <i>Wartelia</i>, genre nouveau d'Annélides, considérés à tort comme des embryons de Térébelles. <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris.</em> 86(18): 1147-1149., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4077268
page(s): 1148 [details]
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
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additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
source of synonymy Jirkov, I.; Leontovich, M. (2017). Review of genera within the Axionice/Pista complex (Polychaeta, Terebellidae), with discussion of the taxonomic definition of other Terebellidae with large lateral lobes. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 97(05): 911-934., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000923
note: synonymy of Lanice and other genera to Axionice was proposed by Jirkov & Leontovich, but has not been implemented here. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Hutchings, Pat A. (2007). New species of deep-sea Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae (Polychaeta) (sedentary species III). <em>Galathea Report.</em> 21: 75-90 [not online as at January 2016]., available online at http://www.zmuc.dk/InverWeb/Galathea/index.html
page(s): 83; note: Table 1 is a tabulation of diagnostic features of all Lanice [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 379-380 [details]
original description (of Wartelia Giard, 1878) Giard, Alfred. (1878). Sur les <i>Wartelia</i>, genre nouveau d'Annélides, considérés à tort comme des embryons de Térébelles. <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris.</em> 86(18): 1147-1149., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4077268
page(s): 1148 [details]
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. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
source of synonymy Jirkov, I.; Leontovich, M. (2017). Review of genera within the Axionice/Pista complex (Polychaeta, Terebellidae), with discussion of the taxonomic definition of other Terebellidae with large lateral lobes. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 97(05): 911-934., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000923
note: synonymy of Lanice and other genera to Axionice was proposed by Jirkov & Leontovich, but has not been implemented here. [details] Available for editors
[request] identification resource Hutchings, Pat A. (2007). New species of deep-sea Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae (Polychaeta) (sedentary species III). <em>Galathea Report.</em> 21: 75-90 [not online as at January 2016]., available online at http://www.zmuc.dk/InverWeb/Galathea/index.html
page(s): 83; note: Table 1 is a tabulation of diagnostic features of all Lanice [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Prostomium compact. Branchiae, 3 pairs present on segments 2,3 and 4, branchiae branched. Lateral lobes present on peristomium and segment 3. Notopodia present from segment 4, 17 pairs, notosetae smooth-tipped capillaries. Neuropodia from segment 5 (setiger 2), initially uncini arranged in single rows, subsequently arranged back to back in posterior thorax. Neurosetae avicular uncini. Tube with or without branched fine-meshed fan attached to opening. [details]Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Malmgren (1866: 379-380): "Corpus antice subcylindricum, postice attenuatum. Segmentum buccale antice productum labium magnum fingens, infra et lateraliter lobum cephalicum amplectens. Segmentum tertium lobulo magno verticali utrinque limbatum. Puncta ocularia nulla conspicua. Branchiae paria 3, ramosae arborescentes, stipite breve, ramis elongatis, ramulis brevissimis filiformibus dense obsitis, postice altitudine decrescentes, dorso segmenti secundi tertii et quarti adnatae. Fasciculi setarum capillarium, a segmento quarto, h. e. tertio branchifero, incipientes in 17 segmentis. Setae capillares limbatae, breves, limbo striato. Tori uncinigeri a segmento secundo setigero usque ad postremum corporis obvii. Uncini breves aviculares, vertice bidentato, uniseriales, in segmento septimo uncinigere et novem sequentibus autem biseriales. Scuta ventralia contigua." [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description, uncertain. The name Lanice may be derived from the Latin noun lanitium ot lanicium, meaning 'wool' and probably making reference to the anterior region of the worm, where the coiled tentacles may resemble a tuft of sheep wool, or it may refer to the historical character Lanice, Alexander's The Great wet-nurse. [details]
Synonymy Due to the sweeping nature of the synonymies proposed by Jirkov & Leontovich (2017) their generic changes have not been implemented at WoRMS - but note that a large number of genera were proposed to be sunk into Axionice, including Lanice. Axionice was described in the same Malmgren article as the better-known Lanice, so it's an arbitrary choice of the senior synonym (if indeed they are synonyms). [details]
Type species The type species is Nereis conchilega Pallas 1766 by monotypy. [details]
From other sources
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
| Language | Name | |
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| English | sandmason worm or sand mason worm | [details] |
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