WoRMS taxon details

Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844

129427  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129427)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Polychaeta incertae sedis (Subclass)
  6. Oweniidae (Family)
  7. Owenia (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Ammochares Grube, 1846 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Mitraria Müller, 1851 · unaccepted (plankton larval stage belonging...)  
plankton larval stage belonging to Oweniidae, including Owenia
Ops Carrington, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

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  1. Species Owenia artifex (Verrill, 1885)
  2. Species Owenia assimilator Caullery, 1944
  3. Species Owenia assimilis (Sars, 1851)
  4. Species Owenia australis Ford & Hutchings, 2005
  5. Species Owenia bassensis Ford & Hutchings, 2005
  6. Species Owenia borealis Koh, Bhaud & Jirkov, 2003
  7. Species Owenia caissara Silva & Lana, 2017
  8. Species Owenia caudisetosa Hartmann-Schröder, 1959
  9. Species Owenia collaris Hartman, 1955
  10. Species Owenia dichotoma Parapar & Moreira, 2015
  11. Species Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844
  12. Species Owenia gomsoni Koh & Bhaud, 2001
  13. Species Owenia johnsoni Blake, 2000
  14. Species Owenia mirrawa Ford & Hutchings, 2005
  15. Species Owenia persica Martin, Koh, Bhaud, Dutrieux & Gil, 2006
  16. Species Owenia petersenae Koh & Bhaud, 2003
  17. Species Owenia picta Parapar & Moreira, 2015
  18. Species Owenia polaris Koh, Bhaud & Jirkov, 2003
  19. Species Owenia unipinnata Ibrahim, Villalobos-Guerrero & Idris, 2024
  20. Species Owenia vieitezi Díaz-Díaz, Parapar & Moreira, 2020
  21. Species Owenia brachycera Marion, 1876 accepted as Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 (subjective synonym)
  22. Species Owenia filiformis Claparède, 1870 accepted as Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 (subjective synonym)
  23. Species Owenia lobopygidiata Uschakov, 1950 accepted as Galathowenia lobopygidiata (Uschakov, 1950) (superseded original combination)
  24. Species Owenia brasiliensis (Hansen, 1882) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  25. Species Owenia sundevalli (Kinberg, 1867) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  26. Species Owenia tegula (Kinberg, 1867) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  27. Species Owenia voigti Hagn, Burger-Galloth & Polz, 1982 † (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, fossil tube, Pectinariidae, not Oweniidae, see editor note)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Delle Chiaje, S. (1841-1844). Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822-1830. <em>Batteli & Co., Naples.</em> Parts 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10031#/summary
page(s): v.8, p.31 (1844), plate 175 [details] 
Note Type species: O. fusiformis delle Chiaje, 1844...  
From editor or global species database
Type species Type species: O. fusiformis delle Chiaje, 1844 [but often seen as 1841, e.g., in Fauchald (1977)]. [details]
Etymology Not stated, but assumed to be in recognition of Sir Richard Owen, contemporary to Delle Chaije. Hansson's BEMON, Etymology...  
Etymology Not stated, but assumed to be in recognition of Sir Richard Owen, contemporary to Delle Chaije. Hansson's BEMON, Etymology of Marine Organisms, lists Owenia as a name relating to the famous 19thC British Museum anatomist. [details]

Homonymy Senior homonym to Owenia Prosch, 1849 in Cephalopoda, Cranchiidae (squid). Owenia Prosch has been replaced by Teuthowenia...  
Homonymy Senior homonym to Owenia Prosch, 1849 in Cephalopoda, Cranchiidae (squid). Owenia Prosch has been replaced by Teuthowenia Chun, 1910. There is also Owenia Gray 1855 in Aves. All three genera are assumed named to recognize Sir Richard Owen of the British Museum. There is also a junior plant kingdom genus Owenia Mueller, F.J.H (1857), which is a genus of trees in the family Meliaceae, and endemic to Australia. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129427 on 2025-05-22
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2012-05-01 23:27:33Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2020-01-18 08:48:22Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2024-09-09 09:33:42Z
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Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description Delle Chiaje, S. (1841-1844). Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822-1830. <em>Batteli & Co., Naples.</em> Parts 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10031#/summary
page(s): v.8, p.31 (1844), plate 175 [details] 

original description (of Mitraria Müller, 1851) Müller, Johannes. (1851). Über die Jugendzustände einiger Seethiere. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Konigl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> [year 1851]: 468-474., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11056580
page(s): 468; note: description without figures, no species name with genus [details] 

original description (of Ammochares Grube, 1846) Grube, Adolph-Eduard 1846. Beschreibung neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. Zweiter Beitrag: Corephorus elegans Gr., Ammochares Ottonis Gr., Dasymallus caducus Gr., Scalis minax Gr. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 12: 161-171,plate 5, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13704924
page(s): 163 [details] 

original description (of Ops Carrington, 1865) Carrington, Benjamin. (1865). On the chaetopod annelides of the Southport sands. <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.</em> 4: 176-188., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48862346
page(s): 187 [details] OpenAccess publication

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] 

Identification resource

identification resource Koh, Byoung-Seol; Bhaud, Michel R. (2003). Identification of new criteria for differentiating between populations of <i>Owenia fusiformis</i> (Annelida Polychaeta) from different origins: rehabilitation of old species and erection of new species. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 53(2-3): 65-95., available online at https://wwwphp.obs-banyuls.fr/Viemilieu/index.php/volume-53-2003/53-issues-2-3/532-3-article-1.html [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details] 

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] 

 
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From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but assumed to be in recognition of Sir Richard Owen, contemporary to Delle Chaije. Hansson's BEMON, Etymology of Marine Organisms, lists Owenia as a name relating to the famous 19thC British Museum anatomist. [details]

Grammatical gender Feminine. No masculine Owenia species names have been created, although the genus may have been named after Sir Richard Owen. Owenia has a feminine suffix. [details]

Homonymy Senior homonym to Owenia Prosch, 1849 in Cephalopoda, Cranchiidae (squid). Owenia Prosch has been replaced by Teuthowenia Chun, 1910. There is also Owenia Gray 1855 in Aves. All three genera are assumed named to recognize Sir Richard Owen of the British Museum. There is also a junior plant kingdom genus Owenia Mueller, F.J.H (1857), which is a genus of trees in the family Meliaceae, and endemic to Australia. [details]

Type species Type species: O. fusiformis delle Chiaje, 1844 [but often seen as 1841, e.g., in Fauchald (1977)]. [details]
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LanguageName 
Japanese チマキゴカイ属  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mitraria) (from synonym Mitraria Müller, 1851)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Owenia) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Owenia) 
To The Arctic Traits Database (7 traits) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Owenia fusiformis
Owenia fusiformis
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Owenia fusiformis
Owenia fusiformis
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Owenia fusiformis
Owenia fusiformis
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Owenia
Owenia
Kokertje van Owenia fusiformis
Kokertje van Owenia fusiformis
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Owenia fusiformis
Owenia fusiformis
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