Deep-Sea taxon details
Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835
130989 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130989)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Berkeley, M. J. (1835). Observations upon the Dentalium subulatum of Deshayes. <em>The Zoological Journal.</em> 5: 424-427, plate 19, suppl. plate vol. plate 18., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13381128 [details] 
Note Weymouth, England
From editor or global species database
Type locality Weymouth, England [details]
Nomenclature Berkeley doesn't actually use the combination Filograna implexa but states "in which case [that Filograna is a new genus],...
Taxonomy Subfamily: Filograninae
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959).
Distribution Newfoundland to Cape Cod, including the Cobscook Bay
Nomenclature Berkeley doesn't actually use the combination Filograna implexa but states "in which case [that Filograna is a new genus], Turton's specific name implexa will be very appropriate" However, Berkeley may have been referring to Serpula complexa (p.153 in vol 2 of Turton's conchological dictionary (1819), as a S. implexa seems not to be in Turton's works.
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Taxonomy Subfamily: Filograninae
Taxonomy Subfamily: Filograninae [details]
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959).
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Distribution Newfoundland to Cape Cod, including the Cobscook Bay
Distribution Newfoundland to Cape Cod, including the Cobscook Bay [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130989 on 2026-10-10
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130989 on 2026-10-10
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Berkeley, M. J. (1835). Observations upon the Dentalium subulatum of Deshayes. <em>The Zoological Journal.</em> 5: 424-427, plate 19, suppl. plate vol. plate 18., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13381128 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors
additional source 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 Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. <em>British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology.</em> 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872
page(s): 160-162, plate V figs. 181-184 [details]
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]
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]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source 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
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 128-129, plate XI figs. 23-24 [details]
additional source Knox, George A. (1951). The polychaetous annelids of Banks Peninsula. Part II. A rock bottom fauna from 80 fathoms. <em>Records of the Canterbury Museum.</em> 6(1): 61-81.
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; ten Hove, Harry A. (2000). On a new species of <i>Salmacina</i> Claparède, 1870 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from São Paulo State, Brazil. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 50(8): 151-161., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/504938 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
context source (Bermuda) Sterrer, W. (1986). Marine fauna and flora of Bermuda: a systematic guide to the identification of marine organisms. <em>Wiley-Interscience Publication. Wiley.</em> 742 pp (Nemertini part). [details] Available for editors
additional source 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 Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. <em>British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology.</em> 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872
page(s): 160-162, plate V figs. 181-184 [details]
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]
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]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source 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
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Keferstein, W. (1862). Untersuchungen über niedere Seethiere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 12(1): 1–147 plates 1–11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44977773
page(s): 128-129, plate XI figs. 23-24 [details]
additional source Knox, George A. (1951). The polychaetous annelids of Banks Peninsula. Part II. A rock bottom fauna from 80 fathoms. <em>Records of the Canterbury Museum.</em> 6(1): 61-81.
page(s): 76 [details] Available for editors
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
additional source Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; ten Hove, Harry A. (2000). On a new species of <i>Salmacina</i> Claparède, 1870 (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from São Paulo State, Brazil. <em>Beaufortia.</em> 50(8): 151-161., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/504938 [details] Available for editors
additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors
redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Berkeley doesn't actually use the combination Filograna implexa but states "in which case [that Filograna is a new genus], Turton's specific name implexa will be very appropriate" However, Berkeley may have been referring to Serpula complexa (p.153 in vol 2 of Turton's conchological dictionary (1819), as a S. implexa seems not to be in Turton's works.[details]
Synonymy It is obvious that Serpula filograna Linnaeus, 1767, Serpula corallifica Pallas, 1766 and Serpula complexa Turton, 1819 cannot be simple subjective synonyms of Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835 as they are all senior to it. However, they are disused names, thus probably nomina oblita (unused since 1899) and do not take precedence. They are treated as synonyms in well-known monographs (eg., McIntosh, 1923; Day, 1967) [details]
Taxonomy Subfamily: Filograninae [details]
Type locality Weymouth, England [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Distribution Newfoundland to Cape Cod, including the Cobscook Bay [details]
Habitat Found in the sublittoral zone, at depths of 33-55 m; prefers hard substrate, inhabit numerous tubes aggregated into a lacy network. [details]
Reproduction Reproduction is both sexual and asexual, each worm dividing into 2 pieces and regenerating missing parts. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | lacy tubewormcoral worm | [details] |
| German | Filigranwurm | [details] |
| Japanese | シライトカンザシゴカイ／シライトゴカイ | [details] |
| Norwegian | filigranmark | [details] |
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (129 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Filograna implexa)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 16330 Specimen-1)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 16330 Specimen-2)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (116 records)
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (129 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Filograna implexa)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 16330 Specimen-1)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 16330 Specimen-2)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (116 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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