WoRMS taxon details
Tubifex nerthus Michaelsen, 1908
137568 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137568)
accepted
Species
Tubifex newfei Pickavance & Cook, 1971 · unaccepted
marine
Michaelsen, W. (1908). Zur Kenntnis der Tubificiden. <em>Archiv fuer Naturgeschichte Berlin.</em> 74(1): 129-162. [details] 
Distribution Worldwide the number of records are few and it appears to be a phantom species. There are no known records from The...
Distribution Worldwide the number of records are few and it appears to be a phantom species. There are no known records from The Netherlands and only one historical record from a pond in Belgium (Tétry 1940). For some reason Verdonschot (2007) reported it from The Netherlands, but we were unable to trace this record. Recorded by Michaelsen (1908, 1909), and Ude (1929) from Rügen, Northern Germany, Krieg (2006) reported it from from the Elbe estuary and Schöll & Balzer (1998) from the upper reaches of the Elbe. This latter Elbe material unfortunately got lost (pers. comm. F. Schöll, 2011). Hagen (1951) reported it from Schleswig-Holstein in Aalbeek (between Hemmelsdorfer See and the Baltic Sea), river Trave near the Teerhof Isle and in the Kieler Förde near Stein. Furthermore, it has been reported from Turkey (Balik et al. 2001, Yildiz & Balik 2005), North America (Kathman & Brinkhurst 1998, Stimpson et al. 1982), Britain (Silverburn, Isle of Man; Brinkhurst 1971), Finland (Laakso 1969), Sweden (as Tubifex insignis (Eisen); Michaelsen 1908), (former eastern) Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic (Ploučnice) (Hrabě 1981), and Israel (Martinez-Ansemil & Giani 1987). The report on the presence in Italy, seems to be a mistake (pers. comm. of G.Bonomi to B.Sambugar). [details]
Martin, P.; Reynolds, J.; van Haaren, T. (2024). World List of Marine Oligochaeta. Tubifex nerthus Michaelsen, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137568 on 2024-04-26
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original description
Michaelsen, W. (1908). Zur Kenntnis der Tubificiden. <em>Archiv fuer Naturgeschichte Berlin.</em> 74(1): 129-162. [details]
original description (of Tubifex newfei Pickavance & Cook, 1971) Pickavance, J. R.; Cook, D. G. (1971). Tubifex newfein.sp. (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) with a preliminary reappraisal of the genus. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 49(2): 249-254., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z71-035 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Erséus, C.; Healy, B.M. (2001). Oligochaeta, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 231-234 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1981). On the Types of Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) Described by W. Michaelsen and Others in the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg. <em>Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst.</em> 78: 7-17.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). <em>Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl.</em> 2: 1-89.
page(s): 24 [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. <em>Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci.</em> 84.
page(s): 149 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1962). A check-list of British Oligochaeta. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 138(2): 317-330., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb05701.x
page(s): 328 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Knöllner, F. H. (1935). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen über litorale und marine Oligochäten der Kieler Bucht. <em>Zoologische Jahrbuecher (Systematik).</em> 66: 425-512. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. <em>Synopses of the British Fauna.</em> 21: 1-127. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Tubifex newfei Pickavance & Cook, 1971) Pickavance, J. R.; Cook, D. G. (1971). Tubifex newfein.sp. (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae) with a preliminary reappraisal of the genus. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 49(2): 249-254., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z71-035 [details] Available for editors
[request] basis of record Erséus, C.; Healy, B.M. (2001). Oligochaeta, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 231-234 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1981). On the Types of Tubificidae (Oligochaeta) Described by W. Michaelsen and Others in the Zoological Institute and Zoological Museum, University of Hamburg. <em>Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst.</em> 78: 7-17.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1963). Taxonomical studies on the Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta). <em>Internat. Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie. Suppl.</em> 2: 1-89.
page(s): 24 [details]
additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1986). Guide to the freshwater aquatic microdrile oligochaetes of North America. <em>Canada. Spec. Publ. Fish. Aquat. Sci.</em> 84.
page(s): 149 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Brinkhurst, R.O. (1962). A check-list of British Oligochaeta. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 138(2): 317-330., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb05701.x
page(s): 328 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Knöllner, F. H. (1935). Ökologische und systematische Untersuchungen über litorale und marine Oligochäten der Kieler Bucht. <em>Zoologische Jahrbuecher (Systematik).</em> 66: 425-512. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] identification resource Brinkhurst, R.O. (1982). British and Other Marine and Estuarine Oligochaetes. <em>Synopses of the British Fauna.</em> 21: 1-127. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Distribution Worldwide the number of records are few and it appears to be a phantom species. There are no known records from The Netherlands and only one historical record from a pond in Belgium (Tétry 1940). For some reason Verdonschot (2007) reported it from The Netherlands, but we were unable to trace this record. Recorded by Michaelsen (1908, 1909), and Ude (1929) from Rügen, Northern Germany, Krieg (2006) reported it from from the Elbe estuary and Schöll & Balzer (1998) from the upper reaches of the Elbe. This latter Elbe material unfortunately got lost (pers. comm. F. Schöll, 2011). Hagen (1951) reported it from Schleswig-Holstein in Aalbeek (between Hemmelsdorfer See and the Baltic Sea), river Trave near the Teerhof Isle and in the Kieler Förde near Stein. Furthermore, it has been reported from Turkey (Balik et al. 2001, Yildiz & Balik 2005), North America (Kathman & Brinkhurst 1998, Stimpson et al. 1982), Britain (Silverburn, Isle of Man; Brinkhurst 1971), Finland (Laakso 1969), Sweden (as Tubifex insignis (Eisen); Michaelsen 1908), (former eastern) Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic (Ploučnice) (Hrabě 1981), and Israel (Martinez-Ansemil & Giani 1987). The report on the presence in Italy, seems to be a mistake (pers. comm. of G.Bonomi to B.Sambugar). [details]Identification This species has been described by Michaelsen (1908) from Rügen (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) from poorly preserved specimens. Michaelsen (1908) had material that was poorly preserved and dirty, and was not able to give a good description of the distal end of the dorsal chaeta. His drawings have subsequently been copied by Ude (1929), Chekanovskaya (1962) and Wilcke (1967). A British specimen was drawn by Brinkhurst (1971) and subsequently copied by Brinkhurst & Jamieson (1971). Finally the specimen described and figured in Hrabě (1981) are mostly original drawings except for the penial chaetae, which are copied from Michaelsen (1908). Hrabě (1981) described material from the Czech republic (Ploučnice) which is different from the original account (Michaelsen 1908), from the British (Brinkhurst 1971), and the North American material (Kathman & Brinkhurst 1998). As this description does not fit the original account, it is likely that this specimen concerns (an aberrant specimen of) another species. Brinkhurst & Baker (1979) suggest that the peculiar penial chaetae in European material are merely chaetae with the tip broken off. Wilcke (1967) probably made a mistake when reporting on a modified penial chaetae in X. [details]
