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Polychaeta taxon details

Harmothoe crucis (Grube, 1856)

333563 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:333563)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Aphroditiformia (Suborder)
  8. Polynoidae (Family)
  9. Polynoinae (Subfamily)
  10. Harmothoe (Genus)
  11. Harmothoe crucis (Species)
accepted
Species
Harmothoe Kinberg, 1856
Antinoe polytricha (Schmarda, 1861) · unaccepted (superseded recombination of...)  
superseded recombination of subjective synonym
Harmothoe polytrichoides Augener, 1922 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Polynoe crucis Grube, 1856 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Polynoe lobocephala Schmarda, 1861 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Polynoe polytricha Schmarda, 1861 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Polynoe crucis Grube, 1856) Grube, A.E. 1856 (pub. 1857). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quae in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A.S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. [Part 1] Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn 1856: 44-62., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35632990 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe crucis (Grube, 1856). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=333563 on 2026-09-24
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2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian

original description (of Harmothoe polytrichoides Augener, 1922) Augener, Hermann. (1922). Ueber litorale Polychaeten von Westindien. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschende Freunde zur Berlin.</em> (3-5): 38-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43656381
page(s): 40 [no figures]; note: original spelling (and probably the correct one) as 'polytrichiodes' [details] 

original description (of Polynoe crucis Grube, 1856) Grube, A.E. 1856 (pub. 1857). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quae in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A.S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. [Part 1] Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn 1856: 44-62., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35632990 [details] 

original description (of Polynoe lobocephala Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 157, 5 text-figs. [bottom of page], plate XXXVI fig. 314 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Polynoe polytricha Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 156, 5 text-figs. [top of page] [details] OpenAccess publication

taxonomy source Augener, Hermann. (1925). Über westindische und einige andere Polychaeten-Typen von Grube (Oersted), Krøyer, Mörch und Schmarda. <em>Publikationer fra Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, København.</em> 39: 1-47. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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  PDF available [request]

redescription Salazar-Silva, Patricia. 2010. Redescription of Harmothoe crucis (Annelida, Polychaeta, Polynoidae), and re-establishment of synonymized species from the Grand Caribbean with descriptions of four new species. Marine Biology Research 6(2): 125-154, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000903037248
page(s): 127; note: redescription from syntypes, collected Christiansted, St Croix, Virgin Islands by Krøyer [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Polynoe crucis Grube, 1856)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (14 records) 
To ITIS
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