Deep-Sea taxon details
Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856
155282 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155282)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 386 [details]
page(s): 386 [details]
Type locality contained in Strait of Magellan
, Note Straits of Magellan
type locality contained in Strait of Magellan [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Straits of Magellan [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856. 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=155282 on 2026-03-02
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155282 on 2026-03-02
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Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 386 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Averincev, V. G. (1972). Benthic polychaetes Errantia from the Antarctic and Subantarctic collected by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition]. Issledovaniya fauny morei. <em>Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk USSR.</em> 11(19): 88-292 [Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions, 5].
page(s): 116-117, plate VI figs. 8-11, plate VIII figs. 1-8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bergström, Erik. (1916). Die Polynoiden der schwedischen Südpolarexpedition 1901-1903. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 4: 269-304, plates 2-5 follow., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36924800#page/561/mode/1up
page(s): 276, 284-286, plate II figs. 5-6, plate III figs. 1-4 [details]
additional source Ehlers, E. (1900). Magellanischen Anneliden gesammelt während der schwedischen Expedition nach den Magellansländern. <em>Nachrichten der Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1900(2): 206-223., available online at http://www.digizeitschriften.de/en/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN002498812
page(s): 208-209 [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): 41 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles C. A. 1929. On the identity of two polychaete type specimens of Baird, with a note on the genus Austrolaenilla Bergstroem. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, 3: 162-164. [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 55-57 [details]
additional source Willey, A. (1902). XII. Polychaeta In: Sharpe, B.; Bell, J. (eds). Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the "Southern Cross",. pp. 262-283, plates 241-246. British Museum, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12554197
page(s): 264, plate XLI figs. 1-4, plate XLIII figs. 1-2, 4-8 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy 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 [details]
redescription Barnich, R.; Fiege, D.; Micaletto, G.; Gambi, M. C. (2006). Redescription of Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) and related species from Subantarctic and Antarctic waters, with the erection of a new genus. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 40(1-2): 33-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930500445044
page(s): 37-40, figure 1A–L, table III [details] Available for editors
page(s): 386 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Averincev, V. G. (1972). Benthic polychaetes Errantia from the Antarctic and Subantarctic collected by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition]. Issledovaniya fauny morei. <em>Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk USSR.</em> 11(19): 88-292 [Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions, 5].
page(s): 116-117, plate VI figs. 8-11, plate VIII figs. 1-8 [details] Available for editors
additional source Bergström, Erik. (1916). Die Polynoiden der schwedischen Südpolarexpedition 1901-1903. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 4: 269-304, plates 2-5 follow., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36924800#page/561/mode/1up
page(s): 276, 284-286, plate II figs. 5-6, plate III figs. 1-4 [details]
additional source Ehlers, E. (1900). Magellanischen Anneliden gesammelt während der schwedischen Expedition nach den Magellansländern. <em>Nachrichten der Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse.</em> 1900(2): 206-223., available online at http://www.digizeitschriften.de/en/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN002498812
page(s): 208-209 [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): 41 [details]
additional source Monro, Charles C. A. 1929. On the identity of two polychaete type specimens of Baird, with a note on the genus Austrolaenilla Bergstroem. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 10, 3: 162-164. [details]
additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 55-57 [details]
additional source Willey, A. (1902). XII. Polychaeta In: Sharpe, B.; Bell, J. (eds). Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the "Southern Cross",. pp. 262-283, plates 241-246. British Museum, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12554197
page(s): 264, plate XLI figs. 1-4, plate XLIII figs. 1-2, 4-8 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy 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 [details]
redescription Barnich, R.; Fiege, D.; Micaletto, G.; Gambi, M. C. (2006). Redescription of Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) and related species from Subantarctic and Antarctic waters, with the erection of a new genus. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 40(1-2): 33-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930500445044
page(s): 37-40, figure 1A–L, table III [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Specimen Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm 409 [details]Type locality Straits of Magellan [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (38 publications)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856; holotype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3535552)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Harmothoe spinosa (1) 23799)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Harmothoe spinosa 23799)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (13 records)
To ITIS
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856; holotype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3535552)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Harmothoe spinosa (1) 23799)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Harmothoe spinosa 23799)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (13 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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