Species Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862)

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• Pomatoceros corniculata Grube, A.-E. 1862. Noch ein Wort ueber die Capitellen und ihre Stellung im Systeme der Anneliden. Bonn, Carl Georgi 1862: 365-378 [366].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 3001, Java, Indonesia.
• Pomatoceros crucigera Grube, A.-E. 1862. Noch ein Wort ueber die Capitellen und ihre Stellung im Systeme der Anneliden. Bonn, Carl Georgi 1862: 365-378 [367].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMB 425 1 specimen, Red Sea; ZMB 531 3 specimens, Red Sea.
• Cymospira gaymardi Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [539-540].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP 356a (apparently lost), locality unknown.

  Type locality references:

  Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1-628 [571].
• Pomatoceropsis roxasi Holly, M. 1935. Polychaeten von den Philippinen, II. Zoologischer Anzeiger 111(3/4): 96-100 [99].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Philippine Islands.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Willette, D.A., Iñiguez, A.R., Kupriyanova, E.K., Starger, C.J., Varman, T., Toha, A.H., Maralit, B.A. & Barber, P.H. 2015. Christmas tree worms of Indo-Pacific coral reefs: untangling the Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862) complex. Coral Reefs

 

Generic Combinations

• Spirobranchus corniculatus (Grube, 1862).
• Spirobranchus cruciger (Grube, 1862).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indian Ocean and South Pacific Islands.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Found almost exclusively deeply embedded within living Porites coral in aggregated masses; in a wide range of corals

 

Citations

Spirobranchus giganteus corniculatus.
—Imajima, M. 1976. Serpulid polychaetes from Tanega-shima, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 9: 123–143 [136–137, fig. 9].
—Imajima, M. 1977. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Islands). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 10: 89–111 [106].
—Imajima, M 1978. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Nii-jima and O-shima, Izu Island. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 11: 49–72 [56–57].
—Imajima, M. 1979. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 12: 160–183 [177].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1984. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Truk, Ponape and Majuro Islands, with some other new Indo-Pacific records. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 27: 35–66 [54].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1986. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Nauru, the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 32: 1–16 [8].

 

General References

Holly, M. 1936. Zur Nomenklatur der Polychaeten-Gattung Pomatoceropsis Holly. Zoologischer Anzeiger 114: 223 [223] (Pomatoceropsis roxasi as Pseudopomatoceros roxasi)

Smith, R. 1985. Photoreceptors of serpulid polychaetes. Unpublished PhD thesis, James Cook University, Townsville, North Queensland. 1-539 pp. (as Spirobranchus giganteus sp. A)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	SABELLIDA	23-Sep-2015	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	SERPULIDAE	05-May-2015	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		09-Aug-2010	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)