WoRMS taxon details
Pygospio elegans Claparède, 1863
131170 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131170)
accepted
Species
Pygospio minutus Giard, 1894 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Spio inversa Kuhlgatz, 1898 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
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Type locality contained in French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part]
, Note Atlantic Ocean, western France
type locality contained in French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
From other sources
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, western France [details]
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern...
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary, and the Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Pygospio elegans Claparède, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131170 on 2024-08-13
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original description
Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. <em>Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 37 [details]
original description (of Pygospio minutus Giard, 1894) Giard, A. 1894. Contribution a la faune du Pas-de-Calais et de la Manche. Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de Biologie, 46: 245-247. [details]
original description (of Spio inversa Kuhlgatz, 1898) Kuhlgatz, T. (1898). Untersuchungen über die Fauna der Schwentinemündung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Copepoden des Planktons. <em>Inaugural- Dissertation Doktowurde, Universitat zu Kiel, Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, Kiel, Neue Folge.</em> 3:91-157, pls. 2-3. [details]
original description (of Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884) Webster, H. E.: Benedict, J. E. (1884). The Annelida Chaetopoda from Provincetown and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. <em>Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington.</em> 1881: 699-747., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11203280 [details]
context source (Schelde) Maris, T.; Beauchard, O.; Van Damme, S.; Van den Bergh, E.; Wijnhoven, S.; Meire, P. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the Water Framework Directive in the period 2007-2009. [details]
basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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
[request]
additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Mesnil, F. (1896). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. I. Les Spionidiens des côtes de la Manche. <em>Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 29: 110-287, plates VII-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10726590 [details]
additional source Mesnil, Felix. (1897). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. II. Remarques complémentaires sur les Spionidiens. La famille nouvelle des Disomidiens. La place des Aonides (sensu Tauber, Levinsen). <em>Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 30: 83-100., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10721719 [details]
additional source Söderström, Adolf. (1920). Studien über die Polychätenfamilie Spionidae. <em>[published thesis].</em> Uppsala University, printed Almquist and Wicksells, 286 pp. [details]
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 Liu, 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]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
[request]
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
[request]
status source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Neretina, Tatyana V.; Stupnikova, Alexandra N.; Tzetlin, Alexander B. (2016). Molecular analysis of the <em>Pygospio</em> <em>elegans</em> group of species (Annelida: Spionidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4083(2): 239-250., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4083.2.4
note: amphiboreal distribution plus probable second Pacific (Oregon) species [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
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original description (of Pygospio minutus Giard, 1894) Giard, A. 1894. Contribution a la faune du Pas-de-Calais et de la Manche. Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de Biologie, 46: 245-247. [details]
original description (of Spio inversa Kuhlgatz, 1898) Kuhlgatz, T. (1898). Untersuchungen über die Fauna der Schwentinemündung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Copepoden des Planktons. <em>Inaugural- Dissertation Doktowurde, Universitat zu Kiel, Wissenschaftliche Meeresuntersuchungen, Kiel, Neue Folge.</em> 3:91-157, pls. 2-3. [details]
![OpenAccess publication OpenAccess publication](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/openaccess.png)
original description (of Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884) Webster, H. E.: Benedict, J. E. (1884). The Annelida Chaetopoda from Provincetown and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. <em>Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington.</em> 1881: 699-747., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11203280 [details]
context source (Schelde) Maris, T.; Beauchard, O.; Van Damme, S.; Van den Bergh, E.; Wijnhoven, S.; Meire, P. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the Water Framework Directive in the period 2007-2009. [details]
basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Mesnil, F. (1896). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. I. Les Spionidiens des côtes de la Manche. <em>Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 29: 110-287, plates VII-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10726590 [details]
![OpenAccess publication OpenAccess publication](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/openaccess.png)
additional source Mesnil, Felix. (1897). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. II. Remarques complémentaires sur les Spionidiens. La famille nouvelle des Disomidiens. La place des Aonides (sensu Tauber, Levinsen). <em>Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 30: 83-100., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10721719 [details]
![OpenAccess publication OpenAccess publication](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/openaccess.png)
additional source Söderström, Adolf. (1920). Studien über die Polychätenfamilie Spionidae. <em>[published thesis].</em> Uppsala University, printed Almquist and Wicksells, 286 pp. [details]
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 Liu, 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
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
status source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Neretina, Tatyana V.; Stupnikova, Alexandra N.; Tzetlin, Alexander B. (2016). Molecular analysis of the <em>Pygospio</em> <em>elegans</em> group of species (Annelida: Spionidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4083(2): 239-250., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4083.2.4
note: amphiboreal distribution plus probable second Pacific (Oregon) species [details]
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From other sources
Distribution northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary, and the Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); Cobscook Bay to Cape Cod [details]Habitat intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Specimen types not retained [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, western France [details]
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (124 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pygospio elegans)
To GenBank (209 nucleotides; 139 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (28 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (92 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (124 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pygospio elegans)
To GenBank (209 nucleotides; 139 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To PESI
To The Arctic Traits Database (28 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (92 records)
To ITIS