World Register of Deep-Sea species - Leodamas cirratus (Ehlers, 1897)

Deep-Sea taxon details

Leodamas cirratus (Ehlers, 1897)

AphiaID

934479 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:934479)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Leodamas Kinberg, 1866

Original name

Aricia cirrata Ehlers, 1897

Synonymised names

Scoloplos (Leodamas) ohlini (Ehlers, 1900) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination...)

superseded subsequent combination of subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93. 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 94-95, plate VI figs. 148-149 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leodamas cirratus (Ehlers, 1897). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934479 on 2026-07-28

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Leodamas cirratus (Ehlers, 1897). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934479 on 2026-07-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-01-14 07:55:55Z

created

Read, Geoffrey

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original description (of ) Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93. 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 94-95, plate VI figs. 148-149 [details]

redescription Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. Zootaxa. 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph]., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4218.1.1/25653
page(s): 68, fig 29D-H, 30; note: redescription from holotype and new records, new synonymy (A. ohlini) [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (3 records) (from synonym Scoloplos (Leodamas) ohlini (Ehlers, 1900))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (8 records)