Canadian Register of Marine Species - Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818

WRiMS taxon details

Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818

Spirobranchus giganteus

AphiaID

129582 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129582)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ficopomatini Pillai, 1960

Original name

Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818

Synonymised names

Pomatoleios Pixell, 1913 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

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Species Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766)
Species Spirobranchus kraussii (Baird, 1864)
Species Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861)
Species Spirobranchus triqueter (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. 1818: 78-85., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4146409
page(s): 79 [details]

Taxonomic citation

WRiMS (2025). Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced%20/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129582 on 2025-06-01

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/introduced%20/aphia.php/api-docs/docs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129582 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan, Gérard

2007-03-13 07:45:24Z

checked

Fiege, Dieter

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2016-07-06 02:43:40Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2023-03-15 06:29:40Z

changed

Kupriyanova, Elena

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original description Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. (1818). Mémoire sur la classe des Sétipodes, partie des Vers à sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. 1818: 78-85., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4146409
page(s): 79 [details]

original description (of Pomatoleios Pixell, 1913) Pixell, Helen L. M. (1913). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean, together with some species from the Cape Verde Islands. The Serpulidae, with a classification of the genera Hydroides and Eupomatus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. (Series 2) 16: 69-92., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25257250
page(s): 85; note: for Pomatoleios crosslandi Pixell [details]

additional source Hove, Harry A. ten.; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2009). Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. Zootaxa. 2036: 1-126., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/2173
page(s): 96 [details]

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [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]

ecology source Luthfi, Oktiyas M.; Isdianto, Andik; Akbar, Dzikrillah. (2024). Reef-Dwelling Christmas Tree Worms (Spirobranchus, Serpulidae, Polychaeta), on Porites Corals: Densities and Age Structure. Polish Journal of Ecology. 71(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.3161/15052249pje2023.71.4.002 [details]

biology source Sánchez-Ovando, J. Pablo; Re, Denise; Díaz, Fernando; Iñiguez, Enrique; Norzagaray-López, C. Orión; Vinn, Olev. (2024). Microstructure and mineralogy of the tube and operculum of serpulid polychaetes from temperate and warm waters. Zoomorphology. 143(1): 31-46., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00435-023-00637-0 [details]