Marine Species Traits - Spirobranchus americanus (Day, 1973)

Polychaeta taxon details

Spirobranchus americanus (Day, 1973)

AphiaID

560032 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:560032)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818

Original name

Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973

Synonymised names

Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973) Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 131, fig. 18a-f [details] Available for editors

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Type data

Type locality contained in North Carolina

type locality contained in North Carolina [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Spirobranchus americanus (Day, 1973). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=560032 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-02-20 19:31:57Z

created

ten Hove, Harry

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973) Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 131, fig. 18a-f [details] Available for editors

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context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (15 records) (from synonym Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 43131) (from synonym Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973)