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Macrobel taxon details
Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780) AphiaID: 130603
| Status | | accepted |
Record
status | | Checked by Taxonomic Editor |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Pholoe Johnston, 1839 |
| 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]
additional source: Petersen, M.E. (1998). Pholoe (Polychaeta: Pholoidae) from northern Europe: a key and notes on the nearshore species. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 78(4): 1373-1376 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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| Environment | | marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial |
| Fossil range | | recent only |
| Feedingtypes | |
omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
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| Links | | To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life (37 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (105 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Description: A small bristle worm, usually not larger than 10 mm. The body is flat, elongated and covered with soft scales (elytra) on the dorsal side. The head has four small eyes and one median antenna. Its colour ranges from colourless, flesh colour, greenish to black; the elytra are brownish speckled. [details]
Distribution: In the 1976-1986 period Pholoe minuta was found across the entire Belgian part of the North Sea with a low frequency of occurrence. In the 1994-2001 period this wide distribution was limited to especially the western near-coastal zone, which was characterised by a relatively high frequency of occurrence. The density of P. minuta during both periods was relatively low (maximum 100 ind./m2). [details]
Habitat: Pholoe minuta is found in sediments with a median grain size ranging from 100 to 500 µm, but displays a slight preference for fine-grained sediments (100 to 250 µm). However, the relative occurrence of the species remains low at all times (< 20%). With regard to the mud content the P. minuta displays a clear preference for sediments with a mud content up to 50%. [details]
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Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780)
added on 2006-06-07 - author: Hans Hillewaert
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130603 |
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| | | Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780). 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=130603 on 2013-05-21 |
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