WoRMS taxon details
Orbiniella Day, 1954
173951 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173951)
accepted
Genus
Orbiniella minuta Day, 1954 (type by monotypy)
Falklandiella Hartman, 1967 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Scoloplosia Rullier, 1972 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
- Species Orbiniella abyssalis Blake, 2020
- Species Orbiniella aciculata Blake, 1985
- Species Orbiniella acsara Blake, 2021
- Species Orbiniella andeepia Narayanaswamy & Blake, 2005
- Species Orbiniella annulata (Hartman, 1967)
- Species Orbiniella armata Blake, 2021
- Species Orbiniella dayi Branch, 1998
- Species Orbiniella eugeneruffi Blake, 2020
- Species Orbiniella grasslei Blake, 2020
- Species Orbiniella griegi Meca & Budaeva In Meca et al., 2024
- Species Orbiniella hobsonae Blake & Hilbig, 1990
- Species Orbiniella landrumae Blake, 2017
- Species Orbiniella longilobata Blake, 2020
- Species Orbiniella marionensis Gillet, 1999
- Species Orbiniella mayhemi Meca & Budaeva In Meca et al., 2024
- Species Orbiniella mimica Blake, 2021
- Species Orbiniella minima (Rullier, 1972)
- Species Orbiniella minuta Day, 1954
- Species Orbiniella nuda Hobson, 1974
- Species Orbiniella parapari Meca & Budaeva In Meca et al., 2024
- Species Orbiniella petersenae Parapar, Moreira & Helgason, 2015
- Species Orbiniella plumisetosa Buzhinskaya, 1993
- Species Orbiniella rugosa Blake, 2020
- Species Orbiniella spinosa Blake, 2017
- Species Orbiniella tumida Blake, 2020
- Species Orbiniella uniformis Hartman, 1967
- Species Orbiniella branchiata Hartman, 1967 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, may not fit genus diagnosis fide auct.)
- Species Orbiniella jamesi Georgieva, Wiklund, Ramos, Neal, Glasby & Gunton, 2023 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, Not Orbiniella, classification awaiting reasignment fide Mica et al (2024))
- Species Orbiniella drakei Hartman, 1967 accepted as Leitoscoloplos drakei (Hartman, 1967) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Description Orbiniinae (was as Protoariciinae in Fauchald, 1977) with rounded or pointed prostomium and without branchiae. Thoracic...
Description Orbiniinae (was as Protoariciinae in Fauchald, 1977) with rounded or pointed prostomium and without branchiae. Thoracic setae all camerated or crenulated capillaries; abdominal setae include crenulated capillaries, acicular setae and sometimes furcate setae. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Orbiniella Day, 1954. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=173951 on 2026-08-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, J.H. (1954). The Polychaeta of Tristan da Cunha. <em>Results of the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan da Cunha 1937-1938.</em> 29: 1-35.
page(s): 22-23 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Falklandiella Hartman, 1967) Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Scoloplosia Rullier, 1972) Rullier, François. (1972). Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie recueillies par Y. Plessis et B. Salvat. <em>Expédition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.</em> 6: 6-169.
page(s): 119 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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]
page(s): 22-23 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Falklandiella Hartman, 1967) Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Scoloplosia Rullier, 1972) Rullier, François. (1972). Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie recueillies par Y. Plessis et B. Salvat. <em>Expédition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.</em> 6: 6-169.
page(s): 119 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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]
Identification resource
identification resource
Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan; Helgason, Gudmundur Vidir. (2015). First record of genus <em>Orbiniella </em>Day, 1954 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae) in North Atlantic Ocean with the description of a new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4006(2): 330-346., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.5
page(s): 344; note: table and world species key [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 344; note: table and world species key [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wiklund, Helena; Ramos, Dino A.; Neal, Lenka; Glasby, Christopher J.; Gunton, Laetitia M. (2023). The annelid community of a natural deep-sea whale fall off eastern Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(3): 167-213., available online at https://journals.australian.museum/georgieva-2023-rec-aust-mus-753-167213/
page(s): 192, figure 20; note: Record for Orbiniella, AM W.52198, AM W.52200 etc, specimens from Whale skull & vertebrae off Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, beam trawl, start: 28.05°S 154.08°E, 999 m, end: 28.10°S 154.08°E, 1013 m. ...
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[request]additional source Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wiklund, Helena; Ramos, Dino A.; Neal, Lenka; Glasby, Christopher J.; Gunton, Laetitia M. (2023). The annelid community of a natural deep-sea whale fall off eastern Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(3): 167-213., available online at https://journals.australian.museum/georgieva-2023-rec-aust-mus-753-167213/
page(s): 192, figure 20; note: Record for Orbiniella, AM W.52198, AM W.52200 etc, specimens from Whale skull & vertebrae off Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, beam trawl, start: 28.05°S 154.08°E, 999 m, end: 28.10°S 154.08°E, 1013 m. ...
Record for Orbiniella, AM W.52198, AM W.52200 etc, specimens from Whale skull & vertebrae off Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, beam trawl, start: 28.05°S 154.08°E, 999 m, end: 28.10°S 154.08°E, 1013 m. Different specimens from the same sample were named as Orbiniella jamesi and have the same molecular signature but slightly different morphology.
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Description Orbiniinae (was as Protoariciinae in Fauchald, 1977) with rounded or pointed prostomium and without branchiae. Thoracic setae all camerated or crenulated capillaries; abdominal setae include crenulated capillaries, acicular setae and sometimes furcate setae. [details]
