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WoRMS name details
original description
Johnston, George. (1827). [Part 2] Art. XXXVI Contributions to the British Fauna. [Continued from p.181.]. <em>The Zoological Journal.</em> 3: 321-336., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485847
page(s): 335-336 [details]
basis of record
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf
page(s): 24 [details]
source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Revision of some genera of polychaete worms of the family Spionidae, including the description of a new species of <i>Scolelepis</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 76: 89-104., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34604970 [details] Available for editors  [request]
new combination reference
Quatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346
page(s): 11; note: as Malacoceros vulgaris (Johnston, 1827) [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range "The Spio vulgaris inhabits the sea shore, and the margins of our river [Tweed], a little below high-water mark" (Johnston, 1827: 336). [details]
Distribution Northeastern Atlantic Ocean: North Sea (British Isles) [details]
Etymology "It is difficult to believe that so very common an animal, and one too of a considerable size, should have remained unknown and undescribed up to this time. [...] from its commonness, I have attached the specific name vulgaris [= Latin adjective meaning 'common']" (Johnston, 1827: 336). [details]
Habitat "The Spio vulgaris inhabits the seashore, and the margins of our river [Tweed], a little below high-watermark. It prefers a soil composed of sand and mud, and in which the latter rather preponderates. It is found lurking under stones, or burrowing in the soil, and in the latter situations, the surface to a great extent is seen full of small round perforations, and covered with little heaps of its tubular and spiral excrements" (Johnston, 1827: [details]
Human impact "The animal is used in this neighbourhood [of Berwick-upon-Tweed] as a bait to take the fry of the Coal-fish, — here called Poddlies" (Johnston, 1827: 336). [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality Sea shore and margins of River Tweed, Berwick-upon-Tweed (Northumberland), England, UK, North Sea (gazetteer estimate 55.764°, -1.989°). [details]
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