| Status | | alternate representation |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Accepted name | | Scoloplos (Scoloplos) armiger (Müller, 1776) |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Scoloplos Blainville, 1828 |
| Sources | |
basis of record: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source: Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
Dutch |
wapenworm |
[details] |
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German |
bewehrter Pfahlwurm |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Feedingtypes | |
deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
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| Host of | |
Stoecharthrum giardi Caullery & Mesnil, 1899 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
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| Links | | BIOTIC
To Barcode of Life (51 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (151 publications)
To GenBank (921 nucleotides; 81 proteins)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard
To PESI
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: Bristle worm measuring up to 120 mm long. The head part is pointed without any visible appendages.
The rest of the body consists of numerous segments and can be subdivided into two regions; the central region (segment 12-22) is flattened whereas the posterior region is long and semicylindrical. Gills are present from segment 9 onwards. Colour: orange to deep red. [details]
Distribution: Scoloplos armiger is a widely spread species that was only found scarcely in the eastern coastal zone (1994-2001 period). In the same period the species was mainly distributed near the western coastal zone, the Flemish and Zeeland Banks, where the species reached a very high distribution frequency. The distribution frequency on the Zeeland Banks was remarkably lower. High densities were recorded in both periods: up to 5,000 ind./m2 (1994-2001 period). [details]
Habitat: Scoloplos armiger is found in all sediment types but prefers sediments with a median grain size of 200 to 350 µm that are enriched with mud (mud content up to 40%). The relative occurrence of the species in such sediments exceeds 50%. [details]
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| Images | | 
Scoloplos armiger
added on 2006-02-09 - author: Marko Herrmann
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Scoloplos armiger (O. F. Müller, 1776)
added on 2006-02-10 - author: Hans Hillewaert
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Scoloplos armiger (Müller, 1776)
added on 2010-10-21 - author: Hillewaert, Hans
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130537 |
Taxonomic
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| | | Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Scoloplos armiger (Müller, 1776). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130537 on 2013-05-23 |
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