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Polydora cornuta Bosc. 1802

Description

Polydora cornuta Bosc., 1802 (= P. l i g n i Webster, 1880)

Type species for the genus.

Type locality: Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, USA.

Type material: Lost. Neotype: USNM 98587 designated by Blake and Maciolek (1987).

Location and author of most recently described material: Canada Atlantic coast, USA Atlantic Coast, USA Pacific coast, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Germany (North Sea), Romania (Black Sea), Russia (Sea of Japan), Korea (Yellow Sea), Taiwan (Taiwan Province), off Mainland China (Fuchien Province) (Radashevsky 2005); Australian material not examined.

Recorded distribution: Australia: Victoria, New South Wales (in prep.).

East west, and gulf coasts of North America; Caribbean Sea; Argentina; northern and southern Europe; China; Korea; Japan; India; Brazil; the gulf coast of Mexico; Pacific coast of Russia; Black Sea.

Notes

Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203565

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Spionidae
Genus
Polydora
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spionida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Bosc.
Species
cornuta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Polydora cornuta Bosc., 1802 sec. Walker, 2011

References

  • Webster, H. E. (1880) The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History, 32, 101 - 128.
  • Blake, J. A. & Maciolek, N. J. (1987) A redescription of Polydora cornuta Bosc (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and designation of a neotype. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7, 11 - 15.
  • Radashevsky, V. I. & Petersen, M. E. (2005) On the morphology and distribution of Dipolydora giardi and status of D. trilobata (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Zootaxa, 25 - 36.