(ofSerpula 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 athttps://archive.org/details/pspallasmedicina00pall page(s): 139; note: Serpula gigantea (in large font) is title of a section, beginning p.139 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209944 on 2025-07-16
original description(ofSerpula 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 athttps://archive.org/details/pspallasmedicina00pall page(s): 139; note: Serpula gigantea (in large font) is title of a section, beginning p.139 [details]
original description(ofOlga elegantissima Jones, 1962)Jones, Meredith L. (1962). On some polychaetous annelids from Jamaica, the West Indies. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 124(5): 169-212, plate 52., available online athttp://hdl.handle.net/2246/1213 page(s): 202-204, text-figs. 125-128, plate 52 figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description(ofSpirobranchus giganteus tricornis Mörch, 1863)Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online athttp://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft page(s): 404; note: originally described as 'var. B. tricornis' of Spirobranchus giganteus[details]
original description(ofTerebella bicornis Abildgaard, 1789)Abildgaard, P.C. (1789). Beschreibung 1. einer grossen Seeblase (Holothuria priapus Linn.) 2. zween Arten des Steinbohrers (Terebella Linn.) 3.einer grossen Sandroehre (Sabella Linn.). <em>Schriften der Berlinischen Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde.</em> 9: 133-146, plates 3-4., available online athttp://ds.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/viewer/!toc/1923584_012/36/LOG_0006/ page(s): 142, plate 3 fig. 4 [details]
original description(ofPenicillum marinum Seba, 1758)Seba, A. (1734-1765). Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiosissimis expressio, per universam physiees historiam : Opus, cui, in hoc rerum genere, nullum par exstitit / Description exacte des principales curiosités naturelles du magnifique cabinet d'Albert Seba. 4 vols (v1 1734, v2 1735, v3 1759, v4 1765), Amstelaedami :Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios & J. Wetstenium & Gul. Smith., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/62760 page(s): 39, plate XVI figure 7 [volume 3] [details]
basis of recordDay, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online athttp://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596[details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymyHartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.[details] Available for editors [request]
redescriptionten 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 athttps://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140[details] Available for editors [request]
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context source (HKRMS)Lam KKY. (2003). Epibenthic community development on an experimental pulverised ful ash (PFA) artifical reef. In: Morton B, editor. Asian Marine Biology 18.Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. pp 71-90.[details]
additional sourceStreftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceEhlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338 page(s): 286-292, plate 57 figs. 1-7 [details]
additional sourceFauvel, P. (1933). Annélides polychètes du Golfe du Pei Tcheu Ly de la collection du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho. Récoltées par le R.P. Leroy, S.J. et le R.P. Licent S.J. <em>Publications du Musée Hoang ho Pai ho de Tien Tsin.</em> 15: 1-67. page(s): 62 [details]
additional sourceStraughan, Dale. (1967). Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. <em>Australian Journal of Zoology.</em> 15(1): 201-261., available online athttp://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=ZO9670201 page(s): 245-246, fig. 14e [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceFauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online athttps://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751[details]
additional sourceLiu, 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 [request]
biology sourceSmith, Richard Stewart. (1985). Photoreceptors of serpulid polychaetes. <em>[thesis].</em> pp. 1-424, Ph.D. thesis James Cook University, Queensland, Australia., available online athttp://eprints.jcu.edu.au/24188 note: Possibly this worm studied was Spirobranchus tetraceros, as the location was Australia [details]
biology sourceSmith, Richard. (1984). Development and settling of Spirobranchus giganteus (Polychaeta; Serpulidae),. <em>[Book chapter].</em> p. 461-483 In Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1983: Sydney, The Linnean Society of New South Wales, P. Hutchings editor. note: Possibly this worm studied was Spirobranchus tetraceros, as the location was Australia [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus 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. There is a lot of confusion in the existing identifications of circumtropical "Sp. giganteus", but the use of the latter binomen should be restricted to the specimens from the Caribbean. All non-Caribbean records should be re-identified, some nominal "S. giganteus" even more likely belong to S. tetraceros. [details]