WoRMS taxon details

Paranaitis speciosa (Webster, 1879)

157522  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157522)

accepted
Species
Anaitis formosa Verrill, 1885 · unaccepted (synonymized with doubt in Kato &...)  
synonymized with doubt in Kato & Pleijel 2003
Anaitis picta Verrill, 1885 · unaccepted (synonymized with doubt in Kato &...)  
synonymized with doubt in Kato & Pleijel 2003
Anaitis speciosa Webster, 1879 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Paranaitis formosa (Verrill, 1885) · unaccepted (synonymized with doubt in Kato &...)  
synonymized with doubt in Kato & Pleijel 2003
Paranaitis picta (Verrill, 1885) · unaccepted (synonymized with doubt in Kato &...)  
synonymized with doubt in Kato & Pleijel 2003
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Anaitis speciosa Webster, 1879) Webster, Henry E. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. <em>Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History.</em> 32: 101-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35614233
page(s): 104-105, plate I figs. 8-9; note: Webster uses Anaitis with a diaeresis on the first 'i' [details]   
Type locality contained in New Jersey  
type locality contained in New Jersey [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Distribution Eastern Canada to Chesapeake Bay   
Distribution Eastern Canada to Chesapeake Bay  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Paranaitis speciosa (Webster, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157522 on 2024-03-29
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original description  (of Anaitis formosa Verrill, 1885) Verrill, A.E. (1885). Notice of recent additions to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part V. Annelida, Echinodermata, Hydroida, Tunicata. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 8(27-28): 424-448., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15383364
page(s): 433 [no figures] [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Anaitis picta Verrill, 1885) Verrill, A.E. (1885). Notice of recent additions to the marine Invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part V. Annelida, Echinodermata, Hydroida, Tunicata. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 8(27-28): 424-448., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15383364
page(s): 433-434 [no figures] [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Anaitis speciosa Webster, 1879) Webster, Henry E. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. <em>Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History.</em> 32: 101-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35614233
page(s): 104-105, plate I figs. 8-9; note: Webster uses Anaitis with a diaeresis on the first 'i' [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  PDF available [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 Hartman, O. 1944. New England Annelida. Part 2. Including the unpublished plates by Verrill with reconstructed captions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 82(7): 331-343., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1052 [details]   

additional source Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746 [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 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 [request] 

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Distribution Eastern Canada to Chesapeake Bay  [details]

Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]