Deep-Sea taxon details
Eunice fucata Ehlers, 1887
327684 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:327684)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 91 [details]
page(s): 91 [details]
Note Dry Tortugas, Channel between East and Middle...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Dry Tortugas, Channel between East and Middle Key, deptb 5 to 7 fathoms, Gulf of Mexico / Caribbean Sea. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Eunice fucata Ehlers, 1887. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327684 on 2024-04-20
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Eunice fucata Ehlers, 1887. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327684 on 2024-04-20
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Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 91 [details]
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 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]
redescription Fauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 523: 1-422., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.523
page(s): 150 [not clear if Ehlers' or Mayer's specimens are re-examined] [details]
ecology source Clark, L. B. and Hess, W. N. 1928. Swarming of the palolo worm (Eunice fucata) under natural conditions with observations of reactions of free living sexual ends. Report of the Tortugas Laboratory, Carnegie Institute Year Book 37: 88. [details]
ecology source Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1908). The annual breeding-swarm of the Atlantic Palolo. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 102: 107-112., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1632941 [details]
biology source Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1902). The Atlantic palolo. <em>The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Sciences bulletin.</em> 1(3): 93-103., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50943311 [details]
page(s): 91 [details]
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 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]
redescription Fauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 523: 1-422., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.523
page(s): 150 [not clear if Ehlers' or Mayer's specimens are re-examined] [details]
ecology source Clark, L. B. and Hess, W. N. 1928. Swarming of the palolo worm (Eunice fucata) under natural conditions with observations of reactions of free living sexual ends. Report of the Tortugas Laboratory, Carnegie Institute Year Book 37: 88. [details]
ecology source Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1908). The annual breeding-swarm of the Atlantic Palolo. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 102: 107-112., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1632941 [details]
biology source Mayer, Alfred Goldsborough. (1902). The Atlantic palolo. <em>The Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Sciences bulletin.</em> 1(3): 93-103., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50943311 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype MCZ unknown, geounit Florida Keys [details]
From editor or global species database
Breeding The later papers of Clark & Hess on reproductive swarming were written while the "Atlantic palolo" was placed in Leodice. Earlier Treadwell (1921, reported as Leodice fucata) has a good summary of knowledge to that date, including swarming dates. [details]Type locality Dry Tortugas, Channel between East and Middle Key, deptb 5 to 7 fathoms, Gulf of Mexico / Caribbean Sea. [details]
