WoRMS taxon details
Spirobranchus spinosus Moore, 1923
334836 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334836)
accepted
Species
Spirabranchus spinosus Moore, 1923 · unaccepted (superseded original combination,...)
superseded original combination, misspelled genus
Spirobranchus quadricornis non (Grube) sensu Treadwell, 1914 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Spirabranchus spinosus Moore, 1923) Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425
page(s): 248-250, plate XVIII fig. 47 [details]
page(s): 248-250, plate XVIII fig. 47 [details]
Note CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara Island
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Type locality CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara Island [details]
Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be...
Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be subspecies, in the meantime all recognized as species-complexes by themselves, totalling some 10 different species, see Fiege & ten Hove (1999 fig.4) for a graphic overview. There is a lot of confusion in the existing identifications of circumtropical "Sp. giganteus", but the use of the latter binomen should be restricted to the specimens from the Caribbean. Ten Hove synonymised S. spinosus with S. giganteus, but in the meantime the taxon is recognized as a full species again. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Spirobranchus spinosus Moore, 1923. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334836 on 2024-04-16
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(of Spirabranchus spinosus Moore, 1923) Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425
page(s): 248-250, plate XVIII fig. 47 [details]
basis of record Hartman, O. 1966. Quantitive survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 19(2): 187-455., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27911709 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Loi, Tran-ngoc. (1980). Catalogue of the types of polychaete species erected by J. Percy Moore. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 132: 121-149., available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/4064752
page(s): 145 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bastida-Zavala, J.R. (2008). Serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific, including a brief mention of Hawaiian serpulids. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1722: 1-61. [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy ten Hove, Harry A. (1970). Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - The genus <i>Spirobranchus</i>. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 32: 1-57, plates I-V., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 248-250, plate XVIII fig. 47 [details]
basis of record Hartman, O. 1966. Quantitive survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 19(2): 187-455., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27911709 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Loi, Tran-ngoc. (1980). Catalogue of the types of polychaete species erected by J. Percy Moore. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 132: 121-149., available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/4064752
page(s): 145 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Bastida-Zavala, J.R. (2008). Serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific, including a brief mention of Hawaiian serpulids. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1722: 1-61. [details] Available for editors
[request] source of synonymy ten Hove, Harry A. (1970). Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - The genus <i>Spirobranchus</i>. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 32: 1-57, plates I-V., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Holotype USNM 17109 [details]Synonymy Spirobranchus grandis, a lapsus calami by Brusca & Brusca for S. giganteus, should be attributed to S. incrassatus. [details]
Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be subspecies, in the meantime all recognized as species-complexes by themselves, totalling some 10 different species, see Fiege & ten Hove (1999 fig.4) for a graphic overview. There is a lot of confusion in the existing identifications of circumtropical "Sp. giganteus", but the use of the latter binomen should be restricted to the specimens from the Caribbean. Ten Hove synonymised S. spinosus with S. giganteus, but in the meantime the taxon is recognized as a full species again. [details]
Type locality CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara Island [details]
