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Amphitrite rubra (Risso, 1826)

131478  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131478)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Risso, A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. F.-G. Levrault, Paris, viii + 439 pp. + pls 1-12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50455192
page(s): 409; note: As a new species marked (N). There is no indication this is a usage record of the Terebella rubra of Gmelin in Linnaeus [details] OpenAccess publication
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Amphitrite rubra (Risso, 1826). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131478 on 2026-02-20
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Amphitrite rubra (Risso, 1826). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131478 on 2026-02-20
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2017-04-24 21:46:43Z
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2020-12-27 00:49:27Z
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original description (of ) Risso, A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. F.-G. Levrault, Paris, viii + 439 pp. + pls 1-12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50455192
page(s): 409; note: As a new species marked (N). There is no indication this is a usage record of the Terebella rubra of Gmelin in Linnaeus [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source 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)
note: listing only [details] 

additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1909). Deuxième note préliminaire sur les polychètes provenant des campagnes de l'<i>Hirondelle</i> et de la <i>Princesse-Alice</i>, ou déposées dans la Musée Océanographique de Monaco. <em>Bulletin de l'Institute Océanographique de Monaco.</em> 142: 1-76., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46491917 [details] 

additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1936). Annélides Polychètes du Japon. <em>Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University.</em> (Series B) 12 (1): 41-92., available online at https://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/257848/1/mcskiu-b_12_1_41.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Fauvel, 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): 54 [details] 

source of synonymy Hartman, 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  PDF available

redescription Marenzeller, Emil von. (1884). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. Dritter Beitrag. [Terebellen (<i>Amphitritea</i> Mgrn.)]. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 89(1-3): 151-215, plates I-II., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35292441
page(s): 173 [details] OpenAccess publication

status source Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1995). Description of the widely reported terebellid polychaetes <i>Loimia medusa</i> (Savigny) and <i>Amphitrite rubra</i> (Risso). In: Keyser, Dietmar; Whatley, Robin C. (Eds.). Zur Zoogeographie und Systematik insbesondere der Polychaeten und Ostracoden: zu ehren von Dr. habil. Gesa Hartmann-Schröder und Prof. Dr. h. c. Gerhard Hartmann. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 92, Ergänzungsband [= Supplement]: 149-154., available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/357128
page(s): 152-153, fig. 2a-c; note: authors place an Amphitrite rubra paratype as an indeterminate terebellinae (then amphitritinae), perhaps belonging in Longicarpus [details] Available for editors  PDF available

status source Jirkov, Igor A. (2020). Review of the European Amphitrite (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) with description of two new species. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 17(4): 311-360., available online at https://kmkjournals.com/journals/Inv_Zool/IZ_Index_Volumes/IZ_17/IZ_17_4_311_360
page(s): 338, figure 20; note: Describes and figures Mediterranean specimens identified as Amphitrite rubra. Disagrees with Hutchings & Glasby (1995) that A. rubra is indeterminate [details] 
 
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