MSBIAS name details
Monticellina Laubier, 1961
129247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129247)
unaccepted (junior homonym)
Genus
- Species Monticellina dorsobranchialis (Kirkegaard, 1959) accepted as Kirkegaardia dorsobranchialis (Kirkegaard, 1959) (genus homonym renamed Kirkegaardia)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Laubier, L. (1961 [1960 vol]). Monticellina heterochaeta n.g. n.sp., Cténodrilidé (polychètes sédentaires) des vases cotières de Banyuls-sur-Mer. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 11(4): 601-604.
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Monticellina Laubier, 1961. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129247 on 2026-07-02
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Monticellina Laubier, 1961. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129247 on 2026-07-02
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Laubier, L. (1961 [1960 vol]). Monticellina heterochaeta n.g. n.sp., Cténodrilidé (polychètes sédentaires) des vases cotières de Banyuls-sur-Mer. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 11(4): 601-604.
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Cirratulidae Ryckholdt, 1851. Including a revision of the genera and species from the eastern North Pacific. pages 263-384. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara
page(s): 318 [details] Available for editors
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 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]
status source Blake, James A. (1991). Revision of some genera and species of Cirratulidae (Polychaeta) from the western North Atlantic. <em>Ophelia, supplement 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta).</em> 5S: 17-30., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004629745_005
page(s): 24; note: Reinstated as valid genus (type M. heterochaeta remained synonymised) [details] Available for editors
status source Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1
page(s): 5; note: replaces homonym Monticellina with Kirkegaardia [details]
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
taxonomy source Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Cirratulidae Ryckholdt, 1851. Including a revision of the genera and species from the eastern North Pacific. pages 263-384. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara
page(s): 318 [details] Available for editors
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 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]
status source Blake, James A. (1991). Revision of some genera and species of Cirratulidae (Polychaeta) from the western North Atlantic. <em>Ophelia, supplement 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta).</em> 5S: 17-30., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004629745_005
page(s): 24; note: Reinstated as valid genus (type M. heterochaeta remained synonymised) [details] Available for editors
status source Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1
page(s): 5; note: replaces homonym Monticellina with Kirkegaardia [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality