Species Glycera lapidum Quatrefages, 1866

Museums

Regional Maps

• Glycera lapidum Quatrefages, A. de 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et géphyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 2 pp. 1-749. [187].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (designated by Johnston (1845)), Berwick Bay, England.
• Nereis sorex Johnston, G. 1865. A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 366 pp. [187].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, South Devon, England.
• Hamiglycera serrulifera Ehlers, E. 1908. Die bodensässigen Anneliden aus den Sammlungen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 16(1): 1-168 [105].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 4471 (dried), North Sea [60°42'N, 3°10'W].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Mainly in temperate zones and sometimes in tropical seas.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Seychelles

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

• Mexico
• United States of America
  • Massachusetts
  • Virginia

Neotropical Region

• Argentina
• Chile
  • Valparaiso

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
  • Hainan
• Thailand

Palaearctic Region

• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Iceland
• Norway
• United Kingdom
  • England
  • Scotland

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 3947m.

 

Misidentifications

Glycera alba (non Müller, 1776)
—Johnston, G. 1845. An Index to the British Annelids. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 16: 4–10 [147]

Glycera capitata (non Ørtsed, 1842)
—Johnston, G. 1865. A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 1–366 pp. [186]

Glycera nigripes partim
—Johnston, G. 1865. A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 1–366 pp. [188]

 

General References

Böggemann, M. 2002. Revision of the Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 555: 1-249 [37-40] (figs 19-21)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)