MSBIAS taxon details
Protula tubularia (Montagu, 1803)
131035 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131035)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 513-515 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 513-515 [no figures] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Protula tubularia (Montagu, 1803). 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=131035 on 2026-08-13
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. Protula tubularia (Montagu, 1803). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/MSBIAS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131035 on 2026-08-13
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(of ) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 513-515 [no figures] [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record 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 Appy, T.D., L.E. Linkletter and M.J. Dadswell. 1980. A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Annelida: Polychaeta. Fisheries & Marine Service Technical Report No. 920. 124 p. [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 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 Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 120 [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 Rioja, Enrique. (1942). Estudios anelidológicos. IV. Observaciones sobre especies de serpúlidos de las costas del Pacífico de México, con descripción de una especie nueva del género <i>Hydroides</i>. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 13(1): 125-135., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/527/488
page(s): 133-134 [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta] 2nd revised ed. <em>Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise [The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology].</em> 58. 648 pp. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. (look up in IMIS) [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
page(s): 513-515 [no figures] [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record 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 Appy, T.D., L.E. Linkletter and M.J. Dadswell. 1980. A guide to the marine flora and fauna of the Bay of Fundy: Annelida: Polychaeta. Fisheries & Marine Service Technical Report No. 920. 124 p. [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 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 Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 120 [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 Rioja, Enrique. (1942). Estudios anelidológicos. IV. Observaciones sobre especies de serpúlidos de las costas del Pacífico de México, con descripción de una especie nueva del género <i>Hydroides</i>. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 13(1): 125-135., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/527/488
page(s): 133-134 [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta] 2nd revised ed. <em>Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise [The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology].</em> 58. 648 pp. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. (look up in IMIS) [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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | red-spotted horseshoe | [details] |
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Protula tubularia)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Protula tubularia (Montagu, 1803); HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2434638)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1484 Specimen-2)
To NMNH Extant Collection (WRM USNM 7953 Protula tubularia - Card.)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (9 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 101858)
To ITIS
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Protula tubularia)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Protula tubularia (Montagu, 1803); HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:2434638)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1484 Specimen-2)
To NMNH Extant Collection (WRM USNM 7953 Protula tubularia - Card.)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (9 records)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 101858)
To ITIS
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