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Polydora ligni Webster, 1879

152351  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152351)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Canalipalpata (Infraclass)
  7. Spionida (Order)
  8. Spioniformia (Suborder)
  9. Spionidae (Family)
  10. Polydora (Genus)
  11. Polydora ligni (Species)
 unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Webster, Henry E. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. <em>Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History.</em> 32: 101-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35614233
page(s): 119, plate V figs. 45-47 [details] 
Distribution Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St....  
Distribution Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence Estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), and the Southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora ligni Webster, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152351 on 2024-11-25
Date
action
by
2005-04-11 07:40:04Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-03-13 13:29:12Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2011-03-09 07:52:42Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey
2020-03-03 21:39:07Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

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original description Webster, Henry E. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. <em>Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History.</em> 32: 101-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35614233
page(s): 119, plate V figs. 45-47 [details] 

basis of record Blake, J. A. (1971). Revision of the genus <i>Polydora</i> from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 75: 1-32., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.75 [details] 

additional source Friedrich, H. (1937). Polychaetenstudien. I-III. 1. Hesionides arenaria n.sp. n.gen., ein neuer Polychaet aus der Otoplanenzone der Nordsee. 2. Polydora ligni Webster 1880 in der Ostsee. 3. Über einige Klein-Polychaeten von Helgoland. <em>Kieler Meeresforschungen.</em> 1(2): 343-351. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 345-347, figs. 5-6 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hartman, O. (1941). Some contributions to the biology and life history of Spionidae from California. With keys to species and genera and descriptions of two new forms. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 7(4): 289-323., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822521 [details] 

additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 82 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] 

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] 

additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details] 

source of synonymy Dewarumez, Jean-Marie (look up in IMIS) [details] 

source of synonymy Blake, James A.; Maciolek, Nancy J. (1987). A redescription of <i>Polydora cornuta</i> Bosc (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and designation of a neotype. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 7: 11-15. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Distribution Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence Estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), and the Southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]

Habitat Found in brackish waters, in the littoral and sublittoral zones over hard and sand substrate, often abundant in oyster beds. [details]
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LanguageName 
English whip mudwormpolydora mud worm  [details]
German Holzbohrender Polydora-WurmHolzbohrender Polydorawurm  [details]
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