WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Spirabranchus spinosus Moore, 1923) Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425 page(s): 248-250, plate XVIII fig. 47 [details]
basis of record
Hartman, O. 1966. Quantitive survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 19(2): 187-455., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27911709 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Loi, Tran-ngoc. (1980). Catalogue of the types of polychaete species erected by J. Percy Moore. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 132: 121-149., available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/4064752 page(s): 145 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Bastida-Zavala, J.R. (2008). Serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific, including a brief mention of Hawaiian serpulids. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1722: 1-61. [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
ten Hove, Harry A. (1970). Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - The genus <i>Spirobranchus</i>. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 32: 1-57, plates I-V., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/506140 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Holotype USNM 17109 [details]
Synonymy Spirobranchus grandis, a lapsus calami by Brusca & Brusca for S. giganteus, should be attributed to S. incrassatus. [details]
Taxonomy In 1970, ten Hove split up the "circumtropical" Spirobranchus of authors in three what he at that time thought to be subspecies, in the meantime all recognized as species-complexes by themselves, totalling some 10 different species, see Fiege & ten Hove (1999 fig.4) for a graphic overview. There is a lot of confusion in the existing identifications of circumtropical "Sp. giganteus", but the use of the latter binomen should be restricted to the specimens from the Caribbean. Ten Hove synonymised S. spinosus with S. giganteus, but in the meantime the taxon is recognized as a full species again. [details]
Type locality CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara Island [details]
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