Deep-Sea taxon details
Eucranta mollis (McIntosh, 1876)
174417 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174417)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1876). Descriptions of some new species of Annelida from Kerguelen's Island. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4.</em> 17(100): 318-323., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16011576
page(s): 319-320 [no figures]; note: McIntosh uses Eupolynoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]
page(s): 319-320 [no figures]; note: McIntosh uses Eupolynoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Eucranta mollis (McIntosh, 1876). 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=174417 on 2026-06-09
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Eucranta mollis (McIntosh, 1876). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174417 on 2026-06-09
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original description
(of ) McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1876). Descriptions of some new species of Annelida from Kerguelen's Island. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4.</em> 17(100): 318-323., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16011576
page(s): 319-320 [no figures]; note: McIntosh uses Eupolynoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [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): 125 [details] Available for editors
redescription Barnich, Ruth; Orensanz, José; Fiege, Dieter. (2012). Remarks on some scale worms (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from the Southwest Atlantic with notes on the genus Eucranta Malmgren, 1866, and description of a new Harmothoe species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 42(3): 395-410., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-012-0117-4
page(s): 397-399, figure 2a-k [details] Available for editors
new combination reference 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): 294-295; note: recombination from Eupolynoe in Eucranta, though misspelled as 'Eucrantha' [details]
page(s): 319-320 [no figures]; note: McIntosh uses Eupolynoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [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): 125 [details] Available for editors
redescription Barnich, Ruth; Orensanz, José; Fiege, Dieter. (2012). Remarks on some scale worms (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from the Southwest Atlantic with notes on the genus Eucranta Malmgren, 1866, and description of a new Harmothoe species. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 42(3): 395-410., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-012-0117-4
page(s): 397-399, figure 2a-k [details] Available for editors
new combination reference 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): 294-295; note: recombination from Eupolynoe in Eucranta, though misspelled as 'Eucrantha' [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eucranta mollis, dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eucranta mollis, ventral)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (12 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eucranta mollis, dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eucranta mollis, ventral)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (12 records)
To ITIS
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