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Nereis grayi Pettibone, 1956

157503  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157503)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Nereidiformia (Suborder)
  8. Nereididae (Family)
  9. Nereidinae (Subfamily)
  10. Nereis (Genus)
  11. Nereis grayi (Species)
accepted
Species
Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine
Not documented
Depth range Intertidal to about 160 m.  
Depth range Intertidal to about 160 m. [details]

Distribution Atlantic Ocean: Massachusetts to North Carolina (USA); northern Gulf of Mexico (Florida to Texas, USA).  
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: Massachusetts to North Carolina (USA); northern Gulf of Mexico (Florida to Texas, USA). [details]

Distribution Newfoundland to Bay of Fundy  
Distribution Newfoundland to Bay of Fundy [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis grayi Pettibone, 1956. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157503 on 2025-03-12
Date
action
by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-04-21 20:04:15Z
checked
Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description (of Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956) Pettibone, Marian H. 1956. Some polychaete worms of the families Hesionidae, Syllidae and Nereidae from the east coast of North America, West Indies, and Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 46(9): 281-294., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39693975
page(s): 282-284, fig. 3a-g [details] 

basis of record 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 [request]

Other

additional source Pettibone, M. H. (1952). Checklist of Polychaeta of New England region. 1-32. [details] 

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.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> 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 Taylor, John L. (1984). Family Nereidae Johnston, 1845. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). <i>Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Final report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091.</i> Volume 5. Chapter Pagination: 31-1 to 31-42. Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama., available online at https://www.boem.gov/ESPIS/3/3868.pdf
page(s): 31-35 to 31-38, figs. 31-33, 31-34a-f [details] 

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

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Paratype (of Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956) USNM 22782, geounit Hadley Harbor [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to about 160 m. [details]

Distribution Atlantic Ocean: Massachusetts to North Carolina (USA); northern Gulf of Mexico (Florida to Texas, USA). [details]

Habitat Fine sediments of sand, silt and clay, and in tubes of maldanids, from intertidal to shelf depths. [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution Newfoundland to Bay of Fundy [details]

Habitat bathyal of the Gulf and estuary [details]
    Definitions

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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (2 records) (from synonym Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (228 records) 
To ITIS