WoRMS name details
Cymospira brachycera Baird, 1864
337964 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337964)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Baird, William. (1864). Description of several new species and varieties of Tubicolous Annelides = Tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1 [p.10-16, plate I figs. 2-4] Part 2 [p.16-22, plate II]. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(29): 10-22, plates I-II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601752
page(s): 17 [details]
page(s): 17 [details]
Type locality contained in East Australian Coastal Province
, Note Australia, east coast
type locality contained in East Australian Coastal Province [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Australia, east coast [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Cymospira brachycera Baird, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337964 on 2026-03-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Baird, William. (1864). Description of several new species and varieties of Tubicolous Annelides = Tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1 [p.10-16, plate I figs. 2-4] Part 2 [p.16-22, plate II]. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(29): 10-22, plates I-II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601752
page(s): 17 [details]
page(s): 17 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
ten Hove, Harry A. (1970). Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - The genus <i>Spirobranchus</i>. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 32: 1-57, plates I-V., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140 [details] Available for editors 
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source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Haswell, William Aitcheson. (1884). The marine annelides of the order <i>Serpulea</i>. Some observations on their anatomy, with the characteristics of the Australian species. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 9(3): 649-675, plates 31-35., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6602691
page(s): 662 [details]
additional source Fiege, D., Hove, Harry A. ten. 1999. Redescription of Spirobranchus gaymardi (Quatrefages, 1866) (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Indo-Pacific with remarks on the Spirobranchus giganteus complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 126: 355-364., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb01376.x [details]
page(s): 662 [details]
additional source Fiege, D., Hove, Harry A. ten. 1999. Redescription of Spirobranchus gaymardi (Quatrefages, 1866) (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Indo-Pacific with remarks on the Spirobranchus giganteus complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 126: 355-364., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb01376.x [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
