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Polychaeta taxon detailsPolycirrus Grube, 1850
129710 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129710)
accepted
Genus
Polycirrus medusa Grube, 1850 (type by monotypy)
Anisocirrus Gravier, 1905 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Aphlebina Claparède, 1864 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Apneumea Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Cyaxares Kinberg, 1867 · unaccepted (Subjective synonym)
Dejoces Kinberg, 1867 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Ereutho Malmgren, 1866 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Leucariste Malmgren, 1866 · unaccepted (Subjective synonym)
Litancyra Hutchings, 1977 · unaccepted (Subjective synonym)
Polycirrus (Ereutho) · unaccepted (Subjective synonym)
Polycirrus (Leucariste) · unaccepted (Subjective synonym)
Pseudoampharete Hartmann-Schröder, 1960 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Torquea Leidy, 1855 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine,
recent only
Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 330; note: name followed by a 10 word description for P. medusa [details]
Etymology Not stated. The name Polycirrus is composed by the prefix of Greek origin poly-, meaning 'many', and the Latin noun cirrus,...
Etymology Not stated. The name Polycirrus is composed by the prefix of Greek origin poly-, meaning 'many', and the Latin noun cirrus, meaning 'curl' or 'filament', and refers presumably to the presence of numerous buccal tentacles on the prostomial region. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Polycirrus Grube, 1850. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129710 on 2026-06-30
Date action by
original description
Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350
page(s): 330; note: name followed by a 10 word description for P. medusa [details] original description (of Aphlebina Claparède, 1864) Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972 page(s): 483-490 [details] original description (of Ereutho Malmgren, 1866) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631 page(s): 391 [details] original description (of Litancyra Hutchings, 1977) Hutchings, Patricia A. (1977). Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 31(1): 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.31.1977.232 page(s): 9-10 [details] Available for editors  [request]original description (of Pseudoampharete Hartmann-Schröder, 1960) Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1960). Zur Polychaeten-Fauna von Peru. <em>Beiträge zur neotropischen Fauna.</em> 2(1): 1-44., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01650526009380621 page(s): 38 [details] Available for editors [request]original description (of Anisocirrus Gravier, 1905) Gravier, Charles. (1905). Sur deux types nouveaux de Térébelliens, <i>Anisocirrus</i> nov. gen., <i>decipiens</i> nov. sp., <i>Aponobranchus</i> nov. gen., <i>perrieri</i> nov. sp. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 11(6): 437-444., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42898010 page(s): 437-441 [diagnosis in page 441] [details]  original description (of Apneumea Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 380 [details] original description (of Cyaxares Kinberg, 1867) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795 page(s): 348 [details] original description (of Dejoces Kinberg, 1867) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795 page(s): 348 [details] original description (of Leucariste Malmgren, 1866) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631 page(s): 390 [details] original description (of Torquea Leidy, 1855) Leidy, J. (1855). Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine Invertebrate fauna of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 3(2) no. 11: 135-152, pls. 10-11. (xii-1855)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36848120 page(s): 146 [details] taxonomy source Glasby, Christopher J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2014). Revision of the taxonomy of <em>Polycirrus</em> Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Terebellida: Polycirridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3877(1): 1-117., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3877.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Nogueira, Joao M. de Matos; Hutchings, Pat A.; Carrerette, Orlemir. (2015). Polycirridae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 437-483., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.17 page(s): 448-449; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] additional source Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218 page(s): 242 [details] additional source Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1855). Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig bekannter Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 21(1): 81-136, plates III-V., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6651100 page(s): 120 [details] additional source Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1986). The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 38(6): 319-350., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.38.1986.185 page(s): 330; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus) [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631 page(s): 393-394; note: Emendation (re-diagnosis of genus); invalid fixation of Polycirrus aurantiacus Grube, 1860 as the type species [details] 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 Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [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] additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]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] identification resource Glasby, Christopher J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2014). Revision of the taxonomy of <em>Polycirrus</em> Grube, 1850 (Annelida: Terebellida: Polycirridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3877(1): 1-117., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3877.1.1 page(s): Key p.14, Checklist p.115 [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Diagnosis The original diagnosis of the genus given by Grube (1850: 330) corresponds to the diagnosis of the new species Polycirrus medusa: "Amphictenea. Mundsegment oben mit einer Querreihe von Paleen besetzt." [details]Diagnosis Re-diagnosis of the genus by Hutchings & Glasby (1986: 330): "Expanded tentacular membrane trilobate, sometimes with lateral lobes reduced, with 2 types of buccal tentacles. Thorax with a variable number of setigers, notopodia from segment 2 or 3. Neuropodia first present from segments 7-18. Notosetae variable; include pinnate, hirsute, smooth winged or smooth wingless capillaries, but only 1 or 2 types of setae present in anyone species." [details] Etymology Not stated. The name Polycirrus is composed by the prefix of Greek origin poly-, meaning 'many', and the Latin noun cirrus, meaning 'curl' or 'filament', and refers presumably to the presence of numerous buccal tentacles on the prostomial region. [details] |
