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Polychaeta taxon details

Dipolydora bifurcata (Blake, 1981)

332754  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332754)

accepted
Species
Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981) Blake, James A. (1981). A new coralline boring species of <i>Polydora</i> (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Northern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 80(1): 32-35., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34211341
page(s): 32-34, figs. 1-2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Holotype  (of Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981) USNM...  
Holotype (of Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981) USNM 58976, geounit Tomales Point [details]
Type locality contained in California  
type locality contained in California [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Depth range Intertidal.  
Depth range Intertidal. [details]

Distribution Northern California, in the vicinity of Tomales Point (USA, Pacific Ocean).  
Distribution Northern California, in the vicinity of Tomales Point (USA, Pacific Ocean). [details]

Status Insufficiently known. Not reported subsequent to original occurrence of two specimens at Tomales Point, Marin County,...  
Status Insufficiently known. Not reported subsequent to original occurrence of two specimens at Tomales Point, Marin County, California [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Dipolydora bifurcata (Blake, 1981). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332754 on 2024-03-29
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original description  (of Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981) Blake, James A. (1981). A new coralline boring species of <i>Polydora</i> (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Northern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 80(1): 32-35., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34211341
page(s): 32-34, figs. 1-2 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

new combination reference Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Spionidae Grube, 1850. pages 81-223. 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): 188, fig. 4.32A-E [details]   

status source Radashevsky, Vasily I.; Pankova, Victoria V.; Malyar, Vasily V.; Carlton, James T. (2023). Boring can get you far: shell-boring Dipolydora from Temperate Northern Pacific, with emphasis on the global history of Dipolydora giardi (Mesnil, 1893) (Annelida: Spionidae). <em>Biological Invasions.</em> 25:741–772., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-022-02941-0
page(s): 11 of 32; note: insufficiently known, with only original record reported. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype (of Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981) USNM 58976, geounit Tomales Point [details]
Paratype (of Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981) USNM 58977, geounit Tomales Point [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]

Diagnosis Diagnosis by Blake (1996: 188): "Prostomium deeply incised along anterior margin, forming 2 prominent lobes, caruncle extending to setiger 5, eyes absent [...]. Branchiae from setiger 8, short at first, full size by setiger 12, not extending to dorsal midline. Major spines of setiger 5 with large accessory tooth on concave side and small spur on convex side [...]. Three to 4 curved spines in posterior notopodia [...]. Pygidium with 4 nearly equal lobes [...].[details]

Distribution Northern California, in the vicinity of Tomales Point (USA, Pacific Ocean). [details]

Habitat Boring into intertidal coralline alga Lithophyllum pacificum[details]

Status Insufficiently known. Not reported subsequent to original occurrence of two specimens at Tomales Point, Marin County, California [details]