(of)Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1(3):1–128., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897 page(s): 85-86, plate I fig. 3 [details]
Distribution distribution: Pacific Ocean, California, Japan, Indo-China, Persian Gulf, red Sea, Atlantic ocean(Fauvel,1953); tropical...
Distribution distribution: Pacific Ocean, California, Japan, Indo-China, Persian Gulf, red Sea, Atlantic ocean(Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras
Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
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original description(of)Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1(3):1–128., available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897 page(s): 85-86, plate I fig. 3 [details]
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redescriptionHutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1995). Description of the widely reported terebellid polychaetes Loimia medusa (Savigny) and Amphitrite rubra (Risso). In: Keyser, Dietmar; Whatley, Robin C. (Eds.). Zur Zoogeographie und Systematik insbesondere der Polychaeten und Ostracoden: zu ehren von Dr. habil. Gesa Hartmann-Schröder und Prof. Dr. h. c. Gerhard Hartmann. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 92, Ergänzungsband [= Supplement]: 149-154. page(s): 149-151, fig. 1a-c [details] Available for editors
new combination referenceMalmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online athttps://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631 page(s): 380, plate XXV fig. 80C [details]
biology sourceSeitz, R. D. and Schaffer, L. C. 1995. Population ecology and secondary production of the polychaete Loimia medusa (Terebellidae). Marine Biology 121: 701-711. note: study site was York River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Sri Lanka
From regional or thematic species database
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Türkiye
Unreviewed
Belize
Caribbean Sea
Madagascar
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
Mozambique
North Atlantic Ocean
Red Sea
South Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
From editor or global species database
Neotype Hutchings & Glasby could not find a type and erected a neotype (LACM-AHF Poly 1656) collected from the Upper Persian Gulf. This is not from the known type locality of the Red Sea. [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal in Turkey (Nation) : Shipping [details]
Unreviewed
Distribution distribution: Pacific Ocean, California, Japan, Indo-China, Persian Gulf, red Sea, Atlantic ocean(Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
Present 