WoRMS name details

Polydora gracilis Verrill, 1879

157538  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157538)

uncertain > taxon inquirendum (indeterminable from description)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Verrill, A.E. (1879). Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part I. Annelida, Gephyraea, Nemertina, Nematoda, Polyzoa, Tunicata, Mollusca, Anthozoa, Echinodermata, Porifera. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 2: 165–205., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7303133
page(s): 174; note: no figures [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Note Atlantic Ocean, Block Island, Rhode Island  
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Block Island, Rhode Island [details]
Taxonomy Not determinable from the original description. Blake (1971: 23): "Specimens, described as Polydora gracilis Verrill by J....  
Taxonomy Not determinable from the original description. Blake (1971: 23): "Specimens, described as Polydora gracilis Verrill by J. P. Moore (MS), were examined in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. They agreed with P. socialis. Blake (1969) placed P. gracilis in synonymy with P. socialis but this is at least questionable, since no type material of P. gracilis exists and the description is not adequate for specific determination."  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora gracilis Verrill, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157538 on 2024-04-19
Date
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2005-05-23 07:30:30Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2016-10-16 23:04:30Z
changed
2022-04-16 11:55:19Z
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original description Verrill, A.E. (1879). Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part I. Annelida, Gephyraea, Nemertina, Nematoda, Polyzoa, Tunicata, Mollusca, Anthozoa, Echinodermata, Porifera. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 2: 165–205., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7303133
page(s): 174; note: no figures [details]  OpenAccess publication 

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]   

status source Blake, J. A. (1971). Revision of the genus <i>Polydora</i> from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 75: 1-32., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.75
page(s): 23; note: indeterminable but possibly Polydora socialis [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Not determinable from the original description. Blake (1971: 23): "Specimens, described as Polydora gracilis Verrill by J. P. Moore (MS), were examined in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. They agreed with P. socialis. Blake (1969) placed P. gracilis in synonymy with P. socialis but this is at least questionable, since no type material of P. gracilis exists and the description is not adequate for specific determination."  [details]

From other sources
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Block Island, Rhode Island [details]