WoRMS taxon details
Scoletoma Blainville, 1828
129340 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129340)
accepted
Genus
Lumbricus fragilis Müller, 1776 accepted as Scoletoma fragilis (O.F. Müller, 1776) (type by original designation)
- Species Scoletoma acicularum (Webster & Benedict, 1887)
- Species Scoletoma atlantica (Kinberg, 1865)
- Species Scoletoma branchiata (Treadwell, 1921)
- Species Scoletoma brevicirra (Schmarda, 1861)
- Species Scoletoma candida (Treadwell, 1921)
- Species Scoletoma debilis (Grube, 1878)
- Species Scoletoma elongata (Treadwell, 1931)
- Species Scoletoma emandibulata (Pillai, 1961)
- Species Scoletoma erecta (Moore, 1904)
- Species Scoletoma ernesti (Perkins, 1979)
- Species Scoletoma fragilis (O.F. Müller, 1776)
- Species Scoletoma funchalensis (Kinberg, 1865)
- Species Scoletoma hebes (Verrill, 1879)
- Species Scoletoma laurentiana (Grube, 1863)
- Species Scoletoma longifolia (Imajima & Higuchi, 1975)
- Species Scoletoma lynnei (Knox, 1951)
- Species Scoletoma maculata (Treadwell, 1901)
- Species Scoletoma magnidentata (Winsnes, 1981)
- Species Scoletoma minima (Hartman, 1944)
- Species Scoletoma nipponica (Imajima & Higuchi, 1975)
- Species Scoletoma parvapedata (Treadwell, 1901)
- Species Scoletoma punctata (McIntosh, 1885)
- Species Scoletoma robusta (Ehlers, 1887)
- Species Scoletoma rovignensis (Fauvel, 1940)
- Species Scoletoma tenuis (Verrill, 1873)
- Species Scoletoma testudinum (Augener, 1922)
- Species Scoletoma tetraura (Schmarda, 1861)
- Species Scoletoma verrilli (Perkins, 1979)
- Species Scoletoma zonata (Johnson, 1901)
- Species Scoletoma emandibla [auctt.] accepted as Scoletoma emandibulata (Pillai, 1961) (misspelling)
- Species Scoletoma impatiens (Claparède, 1868) accepted as Scoletoma laurentiana (Grube, 1863) (superseded subsequent combination of subjective synonym)
- Species Scoletoma treadwelli (Hartman, 1956) accepted as Scoletoma maculata (Treadwell, 1901) (unaccepted > superseded combination, subsequent combination of unnecessary replacement name)
- Species Scoletoma luti (Berkeley & Berkeley, 1945) represented as Lumbrineris luti Berkeley & Berkeley, 1945 (informal new combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes <b>[entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]</b>. <em>In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522
page(s): 492 [details]
page(s): 492 [details]
Taxonomy Subsequent workers have accepted the action by Frame (1992) to "restrict the genus Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828 to species...
Taxonomy Subsequent workers have accepted the action by Frame (1992) to "restrict the genus Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828 to species with composite hooks, simple hooks and simple limbate setae; to resurrect the genus Scoletoma Blainville, 1828 for species with simple hooks and simple limbate setae; and to erect the genus Lumbricalus for species with composite spinigers, composite hooks, simple hooks, and simple limbate setae." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Scoletoma Blainville, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129340 on 2024-08-22
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Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes <b>[entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]</b>. <em>In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522
page(s): 492 [details]
taxonomy source Frame, Ann B. (1992). The lumbrinerids (Annelida: Polychaeta) collected in two northwestern Atlantic surveys with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 105(2): 185-218., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35607358
page(s): 203; note: Genus Scoletoma re-validated [details] Available for editors
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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
[request]
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 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]
page(s): 492 [details]
taxonomy source Frame, Ann B. (1992). The lumbrinerids (Annelida: Polychaeta) collected in two northwestern Atlantic surveys with descriptions of a new genus and two new species. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 105(2): 185-218., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35607358
page(s): 203; note: Genus Scoletoma re-validated [details] Available for editors
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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
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
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 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]
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Taxonomy Subsequent workers have accepted the action by Frame (1992) to "restrict the genus Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828 to species with composite hooks, simple hooks and simple limbate setae; to resurrect the genus Scoletoma Blainville, 1828 for species with simple hooks and simple limbate setae; and to erect the genus Lumbricalus for species with composite spinigers, composite hooks, simple hooks, and simple limbate setae." [details]