WoRMS name details
Polydora giardi Mesnil, 1893
183358 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:183358)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mesnil, Félix. (1893). Sur le genre <i>Polydora</i> Bosc (<i>Leucodore</i> Johnston). <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences.</em> 117(19): 643-645., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4798874
page(s): 643 [details]
page(s): 643 [details]
Type locality contained in Manche
, Note Intertidal, boring galleries perpendicular to...
type locality contained in Manche [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Intertidal, boring galleries perpendicular to the surface in Lithothamnion coralline algae on permanently wet rocks. Mesnil (1893: 643 footnote states: "Les matériaux de cette étude proviennent de Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais) et de l'anse Saint-Martin, près du cap de la Hague". Both localities are French coast English Channel but separated by at least 280 km. Anse Saint-Martin is a bay in Normandy at gazetteer estimate 49.71°, -01.88° and Wimereux is a beach town at the east end of the Channel at 50.77, 1.61. However, later Mesnil (1896: 195) only mentions l'anse St-Martin by name for an origin site for P. giardi . This is the type location in Radashevsky & Petersen (2005). However, Radashevsky et al (2022) state that "we reset Wimereux (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France) as the type locality of P. giardi", apparently because Giard was the founder of a marine station at Wimereux (the reasoning is not clearly stated). Although not currently of great significance this restriction of type location is not supported by Mesnil's text. [details]
Type material Type material not located. Radashevsky & Petersen (2005) reported finding at University of Copenhagen (ZMUC) Polydora giardi specimens collected by Mesnil and accessioned on 22/06/1896, currently catalogued as ZMUCPOL-653. Radashevsky et al (2022: 20 of 32) suggest these should be regarded as syntypes. However, there is no evidence the specimens were collected before the 1893 publication of the Polydora giardi name, and the French Channel coast collection site is not known. [details]
Depth range Intertidal.
Description Original description by Mesnil (1893: 643): ''Au cours de l'étude que je poursuis sur les différents types de la famille...
Distribution English Channel; Northern France; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Sea.
Etymology The species is named after the French zoologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (b. Valenciennes, France, 8 August 1846 - d. Orsay,...
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Description Original description by Mesnil (1893: 643): ''Au cours de l'étude que je poursuis sur les différents types de la famille...
Description Original description by Mesnil (1893: 643): ''Au cours de l'étude que je poursuis sur les différents types de la famille des Spionidiens, j'ai eu l'occasion d'examiner plusieurs espèces du genre Polydora [...], et une espèce nouvelle que je nommerai P. Giardi (2). Cette espèce nouvelle peut se caractériser brièvement de la façon suivante : c'est une P. cæca réduite à l'échelle de 2/3 environ avec les différences suivantes : 1° le cinquième sétigère a des soies anormales de P. ciliata; 2° les faisceaux dorsaux de soies fines manquent. Je crois qu'il faut rapporter à cette espèce les P. ciliata var. minuta de Langerhans (peut-être pro parte) et les jeunes exemplaires de P. Agassizii de Marion et Bobretzky. [...] (2) Les matériaux de cette étude proviennent de Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais) et de l'anse Saint-Martin, près du cap de la Hague.'' [details]
Distribution English Channel; Northern France; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Sea.
Distribution English Channel; Northern France; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Sea. [details]
Etymology The species is named after the French zoologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (b. Valenciennes, France, 8 August 1846 - d. Orsay,...
Etymology The species is named after the French zoologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (b. Valenciennes, France, 8 August 1846 - d. Orsay, France, 8 August 1908), to whom F. Mesnil acknowledges the support in the following terms: ''Jes suis infinitement reconnaissant à mon cher maître, M. le Professeur Giard, des excellents conseils qu'il m'a donnés, et de la large et charmante hospitalité que j'ai toujours trouvée à Wimereux'' (Mesnil, 1896: 112). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora giardi Mesnil, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=183358 on 2024-04-25
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original description
Mesnil, Félix. (1893). Sur le genre <i>Polydora</i> Bosc (<i>Leucodore</i> Johnston). <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences.</em> 117(19): 643-645., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4798874
page(s): 643 [details]
taxonomy source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Malyar, Vasily V.; Carlton, James T. (2023). Boring can get you far: shell-boring Dipolydora from Temperate Northern Pacific, with emphasis on the global history of Dipolydora giardi (Mesnil, 1893) (Annelida: Spionidae). <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 25:741–772., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-022-02941-0
page(s): 16 of 32, figures 8-10; note: As Dipolydora giardi with description and comments on specimens collected by Mesnil, and on the possible type locality [details] Available for editors
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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 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]
redescription 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
page(s): 195-202, plate XIII figs. 1-12, table in page 236 [details]
new combination reference Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
page(s): 643 [details]
taxonomy source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Malyar, Vasily V.; Carlton, James T. (2023). Boring can get you far: shell-boring Dipolydora from Temperate Northern Pacific, with emphasis on the global history of Dipolydora giardi (Mesnil, 1893) (Annelida: Spionidae). <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 25:741–772., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-022-02941-0
page(s): 16 of 32, figures 8-10; note: As Dipolydora giardi with description and comments on specimens collected by Mesnil, and on the possible type locality [details] Available for editors
[request] 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 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] redescription 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
page(s): 195-202, plate XIII figs. 1-12, table in page 236 [details]
new combination reference Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype no type known, geounit English Channel [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]Description Original description by Mesnil (1893: 643): ''Au cours de l'étude que je poursuis sur les différents types de la famille des Spionidiens, j'ai eu l'occasion d'examiner plusieurs espèces du genre Polydora [...], et une espèce nouvelle que je nommerai P. Giardi (2). Cette espèce nouvelle peut se caractériser brièvement de la façon suivante : c'est une P. cæca réduite à l'échelle de 2/3 environ avec les différences suivantes : 1° le cinquième sétigère a des soies anormales de P. ciliata; 2° les faisceaux dorsaux de soies fines manquent. Je crois qu'il faut rapporter à cette espèce les P. ciliata var. minuta de Langerhans (peut-être pro parte) et les jeunes exemplaires de P. Agassizii de Marion et Bobretzky. [...] (2) Les matériaux de cette étude proviennent de Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais) et de l'anse Saint-Martin, près du cap de la Hague.'' [details]
Distribution English Channel; Northern France; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean Sea. [details]
Etymology The species is named after the French zoologist Alfred Mathieu Giard (b. Valenciennes, France, 8 August 1846 - d. Orsay, France, 8 August 1908), to whom F. Mesnil acknowledges the support in the following terms: ''Jes suis infinitement reconnaissant à mon cher maître, M. le Professeur Giard, des excellents conseils qu'il m'a donnés, et de la large et charmante hospitalité que j'ai toujours trouvée à Wimereux'' (Mesnil, 1896: 112). [details]
Habitat In galleries bored perpendicular to the surface in Lithothamnion coralline algae, on permanently wet intertidal rocks. [details]
Publication date The publication date of Polydora giardi (and subsequent combinations) has been widely cited as ''1896', notably in the Hartman catalogue, and most recently by Radashevsky & Petersen (2005). However, it is easily discovered (the Mesnil 1893 article is listed in Hartman's 1951 bibliography, and eg. Gil, 2011: 980) that the species was described as new in 1893, in a short description by Mesnil (1893: 643) followed by a discussion on the morphological characters of the genus Polydora in which the new species is also included. Polydora giardi was described in great detail by Mesnil in a subsequent work, published in 1896, but in no part of this work is the species referred to as being new, although Mesnil (1896) does not mention his 1893 work. [details]
Type locality Intertidal, boring galleries perpendicular to the surface in Lithothamnion coralline algae on permanently wet rocks. Mesnil (1893: 643 footnote states: "Les matériaux de cette étude proviennent de Wimereux (Pas-de-Calais) et de l'anse Saint-Martin, près du cap de la Hague". Both localities are French coast English Channel but separated by at least 280 km. Anse Saint-Martin is a bay in Normandy at gazetteer estimate 49.71°, -01.88° and Wimereux is a beach town at the east end of the Channel at 50.77, 1.61. However, later Mesnil (1896: 195) only mentions l'anse St-Martin by name for an origin site for P. giardi . This is the type location in Radashevsky & Petersen (2005). However, Radashevsky et al (2022) state that "we reset Wimereux (Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France) as the type locality of P. giardi", apparently because Giard was the founder of a marine station at Wimereux (the reasoning is not clearly stated). Although not currently of great significance this restriction of type location is not supported by Mesnil's text. [details]
Type material Type material not located. Radashevsky & Petersen (2005) reported finding at University of Copenhagen (ZMUC) Polydora giardi specimens collected by Mesnil and accessioned on 22/06/1896, currently catalogued as ZMUCPOL-653. Radashevsky et al (2022: 20 of 32) suggest these should be regarded as syntypes. However, there is no evidence the specimens were collected before the 1893 publication of the Polydora giardi name, and the French Channel coast collection site is not known. [details]
