WoRMS taxon details

Acrocirrus frontifilis (Grube, 1860)

129739  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129739)

accepted
Species
Heterocirrus frontifilis Grube, 1860 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Heterocirrus frontifilis Grube, 1860) Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 89-90, plate IV fig. 1 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Holotype  ZMB 4519-Q, geounit Croatia  
Holotype ZMB 4519-Q, geounit Croatia [details]
Type locality contained in Croatian Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Croatian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note Adriatic Sea, Croatia, near Cres (= Cherso)...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Adriatic Sea, Croatia, near Cres (= Cherso) (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with a gazetteer to be approximately lat. 44.958º, long. 14.408º), on stones, among Melobesia at about 2 fathoms depth (about 4 m).
 [details]
Type material According to Banse (1969: 2600) "The holotype, which had been deposited in the ZMB, was destroyed during the Second World War (Dr G. Hartwich, Humboldt-University, Berlin, personal communication)." The loss of the holotype was also directly confirmed by Hartwich (1993: 100).  [details]
Depth range Type material found at about 4 m depth. Other records refer 1-124 m.
  
Depth range Type material found at about 4 m depth. Other records refer 1-124 m.
 [details]

Distribution Mediterranean Sea; Adriatic Sea; Aegean Sea; Atlantic Ocean off Morocco; northern Arabian Sea; Gulf of Mexico.   
Distribution Mediterranean Sea; Adriatic Sea; Aegean Sea; Atlantic Ocean off Morocco; northern Arabian Sea; Gulf of Mexico.  [details]

Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet frontifilis is composed by the Latin noun fronti, dative singular of frons and meaning...  
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet frontifilis is composed by the Latin noun fronti, dative singular of frons and meaning 'forehead' or 'front', and the Latin noun filis, plural of filum and meaning 'thread', 'string' or 'filament', and presumably refers to the presence of filiform appendages (tentacles and branchiae) only in the anterior region of the body of the species.  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Acrocirrus frontifilis (Grube, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129739 on 2024-04-24
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original description  (of Heterocirrus frontifilis Grube, 1860) Grube, A.E. (1860). Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Fünfter Beitrag. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin. 26 (1): 71-118, plates III-V., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7153453
page(s): 89-90, plate IV fig. 1 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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 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 Grube, A.E. (1861). Ein Ausflug nach Triest und dem Quarnero. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Thierwelt dieses Gebietes. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin. 175 pp. 5 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6944841
page(s): 145, plate IV fig. 1; note: as Heterocirrus frontifilis [details]   

additional source Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [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]   

redescription Banse, K. (1969). Acrocirridae n.fam. (Polychaeta Sedentaria). <em>Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada.</em> 26(10): 2595-2620., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f69-253
page(s): 2600-2602, figs. 1a, 2 [details]   

new combination reference Grube, A.E. (1873). Die Familie der Cirratuliden. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur, Breslau.</em> 50: 59-66., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38491133
page(s): 65; note: as Acrocirrus frontifilis [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype ZMB 4519-Q, geounit Croatia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Type material found at about 4 m depth. Other records refer 1-124 m.
 [details]

Distribution Mediterranean Sea; Adriatic Sea; Aegean Sea; Atlantic Ocean off Morocco; northern Arabian Sea; Gulf of Mexico.  [details]

Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet frontifilis is composed by the Latin noun fronti, dative singular of frons and meaning 'forehead' or 'front', and the Latin noun filis, plural of filum and meaning 'thread', 'string' or 'filament', and presumably refers to the presence of filiform appendages (tentacles and branchiae) only in the anterior region of the body of the species.  [details]

Habitat Type material found on stones, among Melobesia, at about 2 fathoms depth (about 4 m; see Grube, 1861: 77; Banse, 1969: 2600). Other records refer sand, stones, rocks, or calcareous algae, between 1-124 meters.  [details]

Type locality Adriatic Sea, Croatia, near Cres (= Cherso) (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with a gazetteer to be approximately lat. 44.958º, long. 14.408º), on stones, among Melobesia at about 2 fathoms depth (about 4 m).
 [details]

Type material According to Banse (1969: 2600) "The holotype, which had been deposited in the ZMB, was destroyed during the Second World War (Dr G. Hartwich, Humboldt-University, Berlin, personal communication)." The loss of the holotype was also directly confirmed by Hartwich (1993: 100).  [details]