North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

Macrobel taxon details

Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

129840 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129840)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758

Parent

Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 655 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf (Macrobel) at: http://vliz.be/vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129840 on 2025-04-23

Thematic species database citation

Degraer, S.; Wittoeck, J.; Appeltans, W.; Cooreman, K.; Deprez, T.; Hillewaert, H.; Hostens, K.; Mees, J.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Vincx, M. (2006). Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf (Macrobel). Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/MACROBEL/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129840 on 2025-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan, Gérard

2007-01-22 09:31:04Z

checked

Barnich, Ruth

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

[taxonomic tree]

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 655 [details] Available for editors

context source (Deepsea) Budaeva N.E., Jirkov I.A., Savilova T.A., Paterson G.L.J. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Polychaeta. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 217–230 [in English]. [details] Available for editors

context source (BeRMS 2020) Fish trawl survey: ICES North Sea International Bottom Trawl Survey for commercial fish species. ICES Database of trawl surveys (DATRAS). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010., available online at http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk [details]

additional source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. [book]. 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291 [details]

additional source McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426
page(s): 34 [details]

additional source McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A monograph of British Annelids. vol.1. pt.2. Polychaeta Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. Ray Society of London, 1(l2): 215-442., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38577949 [details]

additional source Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133 [details]

additional source Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris. 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/ [details]

redescription Barnich, R.; Fiege, D. (2000). Review of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean species of Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758 and Aphroditella Roule, 1898 (Polychaeta: Aphroditidae). Ophelia. 53(2): 131-140.
page(s): 132-136; note: Based on material from the most plausible type locality: North Atlantic-Mediterranean Sea. [details] Available for editors

identification resource Imajima, Minoru. (2003). Polychaetous Annelids from Sagami Bay and Sagami Sea collected by the Emperor Showa of Japan and deposited at the Showa Memorial Institute, National Science Museum, Tokyo (II). Orders included within the Phyllodocida, Amphinomida, Spintherida and Eunicida. National Science Museum Monographs. 23: 1-221., available online at https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004708004
page(s): 6-10 [details] Available for editors

identification resource Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors