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WoRMS taxon details
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (2001). Sipuncula, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 178-179 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Cutler, E.B. 1977. Marine flora and fauna of northeastern United States. Sipuncula. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS Circular 403. 7 p. [details]
additional source
Cutler, E.B. (2009). Phylum Sipuncula: peanut worms, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 302-307. [details]
additional source
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark In the literature of the pylum there are many usages of Nephasoma minutum which are not corresponding with the original taxonomical concept of Keferestein 1862. The first to address this issue was Gibbs (1975) page 80 [= Gibbs, P.E., 1975. Gametogenesis and Spawning in a Hermaphroditic population of Golfingia minuta (Sipuncula). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Plymouth. 55: 69-82]. He proposed to retain the name N. minutum for the hermaphroditic population and use the name N. diaphanes (Gerould, 1913) for the dioecious one. Both populations are practically indistinguishable by using classical anatomical characters. This point of view was accepted in the review of the genus Nephasoma by Cutler and Cutler (1986) [= Cutler, N. J. & E. B. Cutler, 1986. A revision of the genus Nephasoma (Sipuncula: Golfingiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Washington 99 (4): 547-574] and in the monograph of Cutler (1994) [= Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula Their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 453 pp.]
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Taxonomy Nephasoma minutum (Keferestein, 1862) is restricted to the hermaphroditic population from shallow waters in the North East Atlantic, whereas the most common and dioecious population in deep waters has been referred to Nephasoma diaphanes (Gerould, 1913) [details]Unreviewed
Diet in general, species are either filter or deposit feeders [details]
Dimensions range between 3 and 30 mm [details]
Distribution cosmopolitan [details]
Distribution from Maine to North Carolina, also in the eastern North Atlantic, Mediterranean, off South Africa and Chile. [details]
Habitat shelf to abyssal [details]
Habitat live within the sediment or inside a protective shelter such as a discarded mollusc shell, foraminiferan test, polychaete tube, or crevice in rock or coral. Sediment medium sand-silt. Temperature range 0-10 C. [details]
Importance used as fish bait and human consumption in Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific. [details]
Predators fish [details]
Reproduction dioecious and lack any sexual dimorphism; fertilization occurs externally. [details]
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