Deep-Sea taxon details
Glycera americana Leidy, 1855
157388 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157388)
accepted
Species
Glycera cirrata Grube, 1857 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Leidy, J. (1855). Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine Invertebrate fauna of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 3(2) no. 11: 135-152, pls. 10-11. (xii-1855)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36848120
page(s): 147-148, plate XI figs. 49-50 [details]
page(s): 147-148, plate XI figs. 49-50 [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, Rhode Island
Unreviewed
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Rhode Island [details]
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south...
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Glycera americana Leidy, 1855. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157388 on 2026-07-25
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Glycera americana Leidy, 1855. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157388 on 2026-07-25
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Leidy, J. (1855). Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine Invertebrate fauna of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 3(2) no. 11: 135-152, pls. 10-11. (xii-1855)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36848120
page(s): 147-148, plate XI figs. 49-50 [details]
original description (of Glycera cirrata Grube, 1857) Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1857). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quae in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A. S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. (Fortsaettelse). [Part 2]. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn.</em> 1857: 158-186., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35800010
page(s): 176 [details]
taxonomy source Rizzo, Alexandra Elaine; Steiner, Tatiana Menchini; Amaral, Antonia Cecília Zacagnini. (2007). Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Southern and Southeastern Brazil, including a new species of Glycera. <em>Biota Neotropica.</em> 7(3): 41-59., available online at https://www.scielo.br/j/bn/a/SkrBt4XVKpWLLHtTzHPywZm/?lang=en#
page(s): 42, figure 1; note: records and description for Brazil [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1934). Polychaeten aus den Zoologischen Museen von Leiden und Amsterdam. – IV. (Schluss). <em>Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden.</em> 17(8): 67-160 [includes figs. 14-31 + figure captions for the 4 issues of the series]., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318471 [details] Available for editors
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1924). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XVIII. Polychaeta II. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. I. Errantia. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 75: 241-441., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27905496 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93.</em> 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 81 [details]
additional source Ehlers, E. (1901). Die Polychaeten des magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes. Ein faunistischer Versuch. <em>Festschrift zur Feier des Hundertfünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse.</em> 1-232, 25 plates., available online at http://www.annelida.net/docs/Ehlers1901_PolychaetenMagellanischenChilenischenStrandes.pdf
page(s): 152-153 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1938). Annotated list of the types of polychaetous annelids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 85(1): 3-31, plates 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4537955 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1948). The marine annelids erected by Kinberg. With some notes on some other types in the Swedish State Museum. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 42(1): 1-137, & plates 1-18. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, O. (1950). Polychaetous annelids. Goniadidae, Glyceridae and Nephtyidae. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 15(1): 1-181., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4160103 [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 50 [details] Available for editors
additional source Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts]., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/18946 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1928). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XLV. On the Polychaeta collected by Dr. Th. Mortensen off the coast of Panama. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 85: 75-103.
page(s): 82-83 [details] Available for editors
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1933). The Polychaeta Errantia collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Colón, in the Panama region, and the Galapagos Islands during the Expedition of the S.Y. 'St. George'. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 103(1): 1-96., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01578.x
page(s): 57 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rioja, Enrique. (1960). Estudios anelidológicos. XXIV. Adiciones a la fauna de anélidos poliquetos de las costas orientales de México. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 31(1/2): 289-316., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/1159/1303
page(s): 297-298 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fauchald, 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 at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
redescription Hilbig, B. (1994). Family Glyceridae Grube, 1850. pages 197-214. IN: Blake, J.A. and Hilbig, Brigitte. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 4 - The Annelida Part 1. Oligochaeta and Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Phyllodocidae to Paralacydoniidae). <em>Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.</em> [details]
page(s): 147-148, plate XI figs. 49-50 [details]
original description (of Glycera cirrata Grube, 1857) Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1857). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quae in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A. S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. (Fortsaettelse). [Part 2]. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn.</em> 1857: 158-186., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35800010
page(s): 176 [details]
taxonomy source Rizzo, Alexandra Elaine; Steiner, Tatiana Menchini; Amaral, Antonia Cecília Zacagnini. (2007). Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Southern and Southeastern Brazil, including a new species of Glycera. <em>Biota Neotropica.</em> 7(3): 41-59., available online at https://www.scielo.br/j/bn/a/SkrBt4XVKpWLLHtTzHPywZm/?lang=en#
page(s): 42, figure 1; note: records and description for Brazil [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1934). Polychaeten aus den Zoologischen Museen von Leiden und Amsterdam. – IV. (Schluss). <em>Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden.</em> 17(8): 67-160 [includes figs. 14-31 + figure captions for the 4 issues of the series]., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318471 [details] Available for editors
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1924). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XVIII. Polychaeta II. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. I. Errantia. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 75: 241-441., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27905496 [details] Available for editors
additional source Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93.</em> 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 81 [details]
additional source Ehlers, E. (1901). Die Polychaeten des magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes. Ein faunistischer Versuch. <em>Festschrift zur Feier des Hundertfünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse.</em> 1-232, 25 plates., available online at http://www.annelida.net/docs/Ehlers1901_PolychaetenMagellanischenChilenischenStrandes.pdf
page(s): 152-153 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1938). Annotated list of the types of polychaetous annelids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 85(1): 3-31, plates 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4537955 [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1948). The marine annelids erected by Kinberg. With some notes on some other types in the Swedish State Museum. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 42(1): 1-137, & plates 1-18. [details] Available for editors
additional source Hartman, O. (1950). Polychaetous annelids. Goniadidae, Glyceridae and Nephtyidae. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 15(1): 1-181., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4160103 [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 50 [details] Available for editors
additional source Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts]., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/18946 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1928). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XLV. On the Polychaeta collected by Dr. Th. Mortensen off the coast of Panama. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i København.</em> 85: 75-103.
page(s): 82-83 [details] Available for editors
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1933). The Polychaeta Errantia collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Colón, in the Panama region, and the Galapagos Islands during the Expedition of the S.Y. 'St. George'. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 103(1): 1-96., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01578.x
page(s): 57 [details] Available for editors
additional source Rioja, Enrique. (1960). Estudios anelidológicos. XXIV. Adiciones a la fauna de anélidos poliquetos de las costas orientales de México. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 31(1/2): 289-316., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/1159/1303
page(s): 297-298 [details] Available for editors
additional source Fauchald, 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 at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
redescription Hilbig, B. (1994). Family Glyceridae Grube, 1850. pages 197-214. IN: Blake, J.A. and Hilbig, Brigitte. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 4 - The Annelida Part 1. Oligochaeta and Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Phyllodocidae to Paralacydoniidae). <em>Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.</em> [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway) [details]Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Rhode Island [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | マイヅルチロリ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (33 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Glycera americana)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (296 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 100542)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (64 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Glycera americana)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (296 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 100542)
To ITIS
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