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Polychaeta taxon detailsPolycirrus dubius Day, 1973
821610 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:821610)
accepted
Species
Polycirrus eximius dubius Day, 1973 · unaccepted (raised to species rank)
marine,
recent only
(of Polycirrus eximius dubius Day, 1973) Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 123-124, fig. 16q [details] Available for editors  [request]
Holotype (of Polycirrus eximius dubius Day, 1973) USNM...
Holotype (of Polycirrus eximius dubius Day, 1973) USNM 43130, geounit North Carolina [details] From editor or global species database
Type locality North Carolina, USA [details]
Status Glasby & Hutchings (2014) elevated the subspecies Polycirrus eximius dubius to a full species, P. dubius; it differs from...
Status Glasby & Hutchings (2014) elevated the subspecies Polycirrus eximius dubius to a full species, P. dubius; it differs from the stem species P. eximius (Leidy, 1855) in the number of notochaetigerous segments (25 in P. eximius; 34 in P.dubius), a difference that well exceeds normal intraspecific variation. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polycirrus dubius Day, 1973. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=821610 on 2026-05-12
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original description
(of Polycirrus eximius dubius Day, 1973) Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 123-124, fig. 16q [details] Available for editors [request]new combination reference 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] Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Polycirrus eximius dubius Day, 1973) USNM 43130, geounit North Carolina [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Glasby & Hutchings (2014) elevated the subspecies Polycirrus eximius dubius to a full species, P. dubius; it differs from the stem species P. eximius (Leidy, 1855) in the number of notochaetigerous segments (25 in P. eximius; 34 in P.dubius), a difference that well exceeds normal intraspecific variation. [details]Type locality North Carolina, USA [details] |
