North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802)

AphiaID

157339 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157339)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

Original name

Nereis cuprea Bosc, 1802

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville. 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 142-143, plate 5 figs. 1-4 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157339 on 2025-10-08

Regional species database citation

NARMS (2025). Diopatra cuprea (Bosc, 1802). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157339 on 2025-10-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-23 07:30:30Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

[taxonomic tree]

[clear cache]

original description (of ) Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville. 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 142-143, plate 5 figs. 1-4 [details]

taxonomy source Sotka, Eric E.; Bell, Tina; Berke, Sarah. (2023). Cryptic mtDNA Diversity of Diopatra cuprea (Onuphidae, Annelida) in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Biology. 12(4; 521) 1-9., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/4/521
note: Clades found in Diopatra cuprea of American Atlantic are demonstrated but not named for taxonomy [details] Available for editors

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]

additional source Andrews, Ethan Allen. (1891). Report upon the Annelida Polychaeta of Beaufort, North Carolina. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 14(852): 277-302, plates XII-XVIII., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7543195
page(s): 285-286 [details]

additional source Augener, Hermann. (1934). Polychaeten aus den Zoologischen Museen von Leiden und Amsterdam. – IV. (Schluss). Zoologische Mededeelingen, Leiden. 17(8): 67-160 [includes figs. 14-31 + figure captions for the 4 issues of the series]., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318471 [details] Available for editors

additional source Augener, Hermann. (1931). Die bodensässigen Polychäten nebst einer Hirudinee der Meteor-Fahrt. Mitteilungen der Zooologisches Staatinstitut und zoologisches Museum, Hamburg. 44: 279-313.
page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors

additional source Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031 [details]

additional source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions. 10(1): 1-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4679950
page(s): 54-55, plate 1 figs. 9-14 [details]

additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas. 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
page(s): 51-52, plate 3, bottom [details] Available for editors

additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors

additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. Discovery Reports, Cambridge. 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 124 [details]

additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1933). The Polychaeta Errantia collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Colón, in the Panama region, and the Galapagos Islands during the Expedition of the S.Y. 'St. George'. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 103(1): 1-96., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1933.tb01578.x
page(s): 71-72, text-fig. 29 [details] Available for editors

additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]