WoRMS taxon details
Pomatostegus actinoceras Mörch, 1863
334598 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334598)
accepted
Species
Cymospira actinoceras Mörch in Quatrefages, 1863 · unaccepted
Omphalopomopsis langerhansii zeylanica Pillai, 1960 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Pomatostegus actinoceros [auctt. misspelling] · unaccepted (subsequent misspelling of...)
subsequent misspelling of 'actinoceras'
Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Pomatostegus latiscapus non Marenzeller, sensu Treadwell, 1926 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Serpula (Pomatostegus) actinoceras (Mörch, 1863) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)
Serpula (Pomatostegus) sanguinea Grube, 1870 · unaccepted (subjective junior synonym)
Serpula actinoceros (Mörch, 1863) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft
page(s): 400 [details]
page(s): 400 [details]
Taxonomy Until recently, following Hartman, the only recognised species of Pomatostegus was stellatus, occurring circumtropical. Ten...
Taxonomy Until recently, following Hartman, the only recognised species of Pomatostegus was stellatus, occurring circumtropical. Ten Hove & Kupriyanova distinguish 3 species with a more restricted distribution [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pomatostegus actinoceras Mörch, 1863. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334598 on 2026-01-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft
page(s): 400 [details]
original description (of Omphalopomopsis langerhansii zeylanica Pillai, 1960) Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 25-27, fig. 9E-J; note: original spelling as 'langerhansi' (single 'i') [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864) Baird, William. (1864). Description of several new species and varieties of Tubicolous Annelides = Tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1 [p.10-16, plate I figs. 2-4] Part 2 [p.16-22, plate II]. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(29): 10-22, plates I-II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601752
page(s): 20; note: from 'Seas of Australia' [details]
original description (of Serpula (Pomatostegus) sanguinea Grube, 1870) Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1870 [volume for 1869 year]). Beschreibungen neuer oder weniger bekannter von Hrn. Ehrenberg gesammelter Anneliden des rothen Meeres. <em>Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischer Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1869.</em> 484-521., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36276705 [details]
page(s): 400 [details]
original description (of Omphalopomopsis langerhansii zeylanica Pillai, 1960) Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 25-27, fig. 9E-J; note: original spelling as 'langerhansi' (single 'i') [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864) Baird, William. (1864). Description of several new species and varieties of Tubicolous Annelides = Tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1 [p.10-16, plate I figs. 2-4] Part 2 [p.16-22, plate II]. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(29): 10-22, plates I-II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601752
page(s): 20; note: from 'Seas of Australia' [details]
original description (of Serpula (Pomatostegus) sanguinea Grube, 1870) Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1870 [volume for 1869 year]). Beschreibungen neuer oder weniger bekannter von Hrn. Ehrenberg gesammelter Anneliden des rothen Meeres. <em>Monatsbericht der Koniglich Preussischer Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1869.</em> 484-521., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36276705 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Sánchez-Ovando, J. Pablo; Bastida-Zavala, J. Rolando. (2021). Redescription of <em>Pomatostegus</em> <em>stellatus</em> (Abildgaard, 1789) and P. kroyeri Mörch, 1863 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Tropical American coasts. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4970(3): 495-514., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4970.3.3
page(s): 506, figures 7A–I, 8C; note: description, without new records [details] Available for editors [request]
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 [request]
status source Hove, Harry A. ten.; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2009). Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2036: 1-126., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/2173
page(s): 78 [details]
page(s): 506, figures 7A–I, 8C; note: description, without new records [details] Available for editors
[request]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
[request]status source Hove, Harry A. ten.; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2009). Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2036: 1-126., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/2173
page(s): 78 [details]
Other
context source (HKRMS)
Sun, Y., Harry, A., Hove, T. & J-W. Qiu (2012) Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Hong Kong. Zootaxa 3424: 1-42. [details]
additional source Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 314-316, plate VIII figs. 3-4; note: spelling as 'actinoceros' [details]
additional source Pillai, T. G. (2009). Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 61(2): 93-199., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Pillai-2009-Rec-Aust-Mus-612-93199/
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Kupriyanova, Elena; Sun, Yanan; ten Hove, Harry A.; Wong, Eunice; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 275-353., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.13
page(s): 304; note: records and colour body figure for Lizard Island [details]
additional source Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 314-316, plate VIII figs. 3-4; note: spelling as 'actinoceros' [details]
additional source Pillai, T. G. (2009). Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 61(2): 93-199., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Pillai-2009-Rec-Aust-Mus-612-93199/
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Kupriyanova, Elena; Sun, Yanan; ten Hove, Harry A.; Wong, Eunice; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 275-353., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.13
page(s): 304; note: records and colour body figure for Lizard Island [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling A few incorrect spellings exist as 'actinoceros', eg. Augener 1914: 152–155 (Shark Bay, Australia; sand and corals bottom; 11–12.5 m); Pillai 2009:109–112, figs 9A–E & 10A–E (Kimberley, Western Australia. [details]Syntype Zoological Museum Copenhagen [details]
Taxonomy Until recently, following Hartman, the only recognised species of Pomatostegus was stellatus, occurring circumtropical. Ten Hove & Kupriyanova distinguish 3 species with a more restricted distribution [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pomatostegus latiscapus non Marenzeller, sensu Treadwell, 1926)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pomatostegus actinoceras)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Omphalopomopsis langerhansii zeylanica Pillai, 1960)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Cymospira actinoceras Mörch in Quatrefages, 1863)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Serpula actinoceros (Mörch, 1863))
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pomatostegus actinoceras)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Omphalopomopsis langerhansii zeylanica Pillai, 1960)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Cymospira actinoceras Mörch in Quatrefages, 1863)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Serpula actinoceros (Mörch, 1863))
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
