World Polychaeta Database - Cymospira gigantea (Pallas, 1766)

WoRMS name details

Cymospira gigantea (Pallas, 1766)

AphiaID

380916 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:380916)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cymospira Blainville, 1828 accepted as Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818

Original name

Serpula gigantea Pallas, 1766

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Serpula gigantea Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P.S. (1766) Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at https://archive.org/details/pspallasmedicina00pall
page(s): 139; note: Serpula gigantea (in large font) is title of a section, beginning p.139 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Cymospira gigantea (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=380916 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-01-20 12:50:32Z

created

ten Hove, Harry

2020-02-03 21:19:07Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

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Sources (2)
Documented distribution (1)

Nomenclature

original description (of Serpula gigantea Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P.S. (1766) Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at https://archive.org/details/pspallasmedicina00pall
page(s): 139; note: Serpula gigantea (in large font) is title of a section, beginning p.139 [details]

new combination reference Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 31, plate XXI fig. 180; note: recombined from Serpula [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality