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BlackSea taxon details

Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838)

131141 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131141)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Annelida
  4. Polychaeta
  5. Sedentaria
  6. Canalipalpata
  7. Spionida
  8. Spioniformia
  9. Spionidae
  10. Polydora
  11. Polydora ciliata
accepted
Species
Polydora Bosc, 1802
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of ) Johnston, George. (1838). Miscellanea Zoologica. III. — The British Ariciadae. <em>Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Edinburgh.</em> 2: 63-73, plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40025966
page(s): 67-68, plate III figs. 1-6 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838). Accessed through: Sergeyeva, O. (2021) Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema at: http://www.vliz.be/projects/Ocean-Ukraine/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131141 on 2026-07-25
Sergeyeva, O. (2026). Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema. Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/projects/Ocean-Ukraine/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131141 on 2026-07-25
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian

original description (of ) Johnston, George. (1838). Miscellanea Zoologica. III. — The British Ariciadae. <em>Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Edinburgh.</em> 2: 63-73, plates II-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40025966
page(s): 67-68, plate III figs. 1-6 [details] 

context source (Introduced species) Molnar, J.L., R.L. Gamboa, C. Revenga & M.D. Spalding. (2008). Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity. <em>Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.</em> 6(9): 485-492., available online at https://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationPractices/Marine/Pages/marineinvasives.aspx [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

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

additional source Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. <em>2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2.</em> 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. <em>National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S.</em> 24119: 366 PP. [details] 

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details] 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] 

additional source Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. <em>Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris.</em> 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details] 

additional source 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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source McIntosh, William Carmichel. (1915). Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. <em>A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids.</em> The Ray Society, London, 3 (1): i-viii, 1-368 (text)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38532650 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Mesnil, F. (1896). Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. I. Les Spionidiens des côtes de la Manche. <em>Bulletin Scientifique de la France et de la Belgique.</em> 29: 110-287, plates VII-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10726590 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Wilson, R.S.; Hutchings, P.A. and Glasby, C.J. (eds) 2003. List of Polychaete species introduced to Australia. Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne [details] 

additional source Kendall, Michael A. (1980). Variations in some morphological characteristics of Polydora ciliata (Johnston). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 14(3): 405-411., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938000770351 [details] 

additional source Wilson, Douglas P. (1928). The larvae of Polydora ciliata Johnston and Polydora hoplura Claparede. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 15(2): 567-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315400009553
note: The P. ciliata came from oyster shell borings and thus may not have been P. ciliata [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Radashevsky, V.I.; Pankova, V.V. (2006). The morphology of two sibling sympatric <i>Polydora</i> species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from the Sea of Japan. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 86(2): 245-252., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315406013099 [details] 

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

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Mustaquim, Javed. (1986). Morphological variation in Polydora ciliata complex (Polychaeta: Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 86(1): 75-88., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01808.x [details] 
 
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BIOTIC 
Marine Life Information Network - UK 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (132 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polydora ciliata) 
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (20 records) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 081279) 
To ITIS
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