| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Typetaxon of | |
Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844
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| Parent | | Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844 |
| Sources | |
additional source: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
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Vernacular
Names | | | Language | Name | | |
German |
spindelförmige Owenie |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Feedingtypes | |
deposit feeder [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details]
detritus feeder [details]
filter feeder [details]
suspension feeder [details]
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| Links | | BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
PlanktonNet Image
To Barcode of Life (299 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (83 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (315 nucleotides; 303 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Authority: Delle Chiaje, 1844. [Tome 8 and plates 174-181 were published in 1844 according to Sherborn] [details]
Description: Tube-living bristle worm with a cylindrical body up to 100 mm long. The head features a crown of six
short, branched and membraneous gills. The segments number 30 and differ in length. The flexible
tube of cemented sand grains and shell fragments is longer than the worm itself. The worm is able to
withdraw from the end protruding from the sediment surface, which subsequently bends down. [details]
Distribution: Owenia fusiformis has a limited distribution on the Belgian part of the North Sea: in both periods the species was only observed in the near-coastal zone with the exception of eastern coastal zone. Whereas O. fusiformis was only found in low densities in the 1976-1986 period (maximum 15 ind./m2), densities up to 500 ind./m2 were recorded in the 1994-2001 period. [details]
Habitat: Although Owenia fusiformis can be found in fine to coarse sediments (150 to 500 µm) the species only reaches a high relative occurrence in the finer sediments. Sediment has to contain mud to be suitable for O. fusiformis. The highest relative occurrence is reached in sediments with a mud content of 10 to 40%. Owenia fusiformis does not occur in sediments with a mud content exceeding 40%. [details]
Publication date: 1844. [Tome 8 and plates 174-181 were published in 1844 according to Sherborn] [details]
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| Images | | 
Picture of Owenia fusiformis
added on 2004-06-17 - author: Hillewaert, H.
qualitystatus: not checked |
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Kokertje van Owenia fusiformis
added on 2012-06-11 - author: Goossens, Leslie
qualitystatus: not checked |
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130544 |
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| | | Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844. 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=130544 on 2013-05-24 |
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