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Polychaeta taxon details

Spirobranchus maldivensis Pixell, 1913

338150  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338150)

accepted
Species
Spirobranchus ceylonensis Pillai, 1960 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Spirobranchus sinensis Wu & Chen, 1981 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> (Series 2) 16: 69-92., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25257250
page(s): 84-85, plate 9 fig. 9a-f [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Type locality contained in Maldives Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Maldives Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note Indian Ocean, Maldive Islands  
From other sources
Type locality Indian Ocean, Maldive Islands [details]
Taxonomy the Natural History Museum BMNH 1924.6.13.114  
Taxonomy the Natural History Museum BMNH 1924.6.13.114 [details]

Taxonomy Species uncertain  
Taxonomy Species uncertain [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Spirobranchus maldivensis Pixell, 1913. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338150 on 2024-03-29
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2008-11-03 13:43:30Z
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original description 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. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> (Series 2) 16: 69-92., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25257250
page(s): 84-85, plate 9 fig. 9a-f [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Spirobranchus ceylonensis Pillai, 1960) Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 20-21, fig. 7H-K [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Spirobranchus sinensis Wu & Chen, 1981) Wu, Bao Ling and Chen, Mu 1981. Two new species of the family Serpulidae from the South China Sea. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 6(3): 247-249. [details]   

additional source ten Hove, Harry A. (1970). Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - The genus <i>Spirobranchus</i>. <em>Studies on the Fauna of CuraƧao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 32: 1-57, plates I-V., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

redescription Pillai, T. G. (2009). Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 61(2): 93-199., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Pillai-2009-Rec-Aust-Mus-612-93199/
page(s): 165, 171 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Part of Pixell's material has been re-identified as Spirobranchus murrayi Pillai, 2009; Sp. maldivensis as mentioned by Wesenberg-Lund (1949), and present in the Zool.Mus.Copenhagen in reality is a cluster of Pomatoleios kraussii. [details]

Taxonomy the Natural History Museum BMNH 1924.6.13.114 [details]

From other sources
Taxonomy Species uncertain [details]

Type locality Indian Ocean, Maldive Islands [details]