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Serpula sinistrorsa Montagu, 1803

340021  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340021)

 unaccepted (subjective senior synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 504-505 [no figures] [details] OpenAccess publication
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Serpula sinistrorsa Montagu, 1803. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340021 on 2025-11-14
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Serpula sinistrorsa Montagu, 1803. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=340021 on 2025-11-14
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-20 06:44:16Z
changed
Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2025-05-22 06:07:25Z
changed
Gil, João

original description Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 504-505 [no figures] [details] OpenAccess publication

source of synonymy Pennant, Thomas. (1812). British Zoology. A new edition in four volumes. vol IV. Class V. Crustacea. Class VI. Vermes. Wilkie & Robinson. London. xvi+379 pp. 95 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34933712
page(s): 359; note: with Circeis spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758), as Serpula [details] 

source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 597; note: with Circeis spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758), as Spirorbis [details] Available for editors  PDF available

source of synonymy Knight-Jones, P.; Knight-Jones, E. W. (1977). Taxonomy and ecology of British Spirorbidae (Polychaeta). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 57(2): 453-499., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540002186x
page(s): 468, fig. 5A-M; note: synonymy with Circeis armoricana Saint-Joseph, 1894, but maintaining the junior name, as "Saint-Joseph's was the first adequate description and it seems best to allow the more familiar name to ...    
synonymy with Circeis armoricana Saint-Joseph, 1894, but maintaining the junior name, as "Saint-Joseph's was the first adequate description and it seems best to allow the more familiar name to stand."
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