Polychaeta name details
Spirobranchus giganteus corniculatus (Grube, 1862)
335845 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:335845)
unaccepted (superseded recombination with abandoned subspecies rank)
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Serpula (Pomatoceros) corniculata Grube, 1862) Grube, A.E. (1862). Mittheilungen ueber die Serpulen, mit besonderer Beruecksichtigungihrer Deckel. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur. Breslau.</em> 39: 53-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46567746
page(s): 66 [details]
page(s): 66 [details]
Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus giganteus of authors in three what he at that time thought...
Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus giganteus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be subspecies, in the meantime all recognized as species-complexes by themselves, totalling some 10 different species, see Fiege & ten Hove (1999 fig.4) for a graphic overview. What ten Hove thought to be the "subspecies" S. giganteus corniculatus nowadays is recognized as complex of about 7 species. The name giving S. corniculatus is one of those 7, but all records under the trinomen should be re-identified. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spirobranchus giganteus corniculatus (Grube, 1862). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=335845 on 2025-07-10
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(of Serpula (Pomatoceros) corniculata Grube, 1862) Grube, A.E. (1862). Mittheilungen ueber die Serpulen, mit besonderer Beruecksichtigungihrer Deckel. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur. Breslau.</em> 39: 53-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46567746
page(s): 66 [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. [details]
new combination reference 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
page(s): 24-32, 50, figs. 63-73 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 66 [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. [details]
new combination reference 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
page(s): 24-32, 50, figs. 63-73 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment S. giganteus corniculatus as mentioned by Imajima (1976) nowadays would be recognized as Spirobranchus paumotanus (Chamberlin, 1919) ; as mentioned by Bailey-Brock (1985) to Spirobranchus richardsmithi Pillai, 2009 in addition to taxonomic remarks, below. [details]Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus giganteus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be subspecies, in the meantime all recognized as species-complexes by themselves, totalling some 10 different species, see Fiege & ten Hove (1999 fig.4) for a graphic overview. What ten Hove thought to be the "subspecies" S. giganteus corniculatus nowadays is recognized as complex of about 7 species. The name giving S. corniculatus is one of those 7, but all records under the trinomen should be re-identified. [details]
