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Phascolion (Phascolion) strombus (Montagu, 1804)

175043  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:175043)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Sipuncula (Order)
  5. Golfingiidae (Family)
  6. Phascolion (Genus)
  7. Phascolion (Phascolion) (Subgenus)
  8. Phascolion (Phascolion) strombus (Species)
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marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Distribution common on shelf from Maine to Long Island (rare in Bay), ranging in deeper water to North Carolina; common throughout the...  
Distribution common on shelf from Maine to Long Island (rare in Bay), ranging in deeper water to North Carolina; common throughout the Atlantic from the Arctic to the Antarctic [details]
Read, G.; Saiz-Salinas, J. (2025). World Sipuncula Database. Phascolion (Phascolion) strombus (Montagu, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=175043 on 2025-02-26
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2005-07-14 08:59:00Z
created
Braeckman, Ulrike
2006-12-13 13:27:29Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-08-07 05:54:56Z
changed
Saiz-Salinas, José
2011-01-11 08:57:28Z
changed
Saiz-Salinas, José

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context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

basis of record Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet in general, species are either filter or deposit feeders [details]

Dimensions range between 3 and 30 mm [details]

Distribution common on shelf from Maine to Long Island (rare in Bay), ranging in deeper water to North Carolina; common throughout the Atlantic from the Arctic to the Antarctic [details]

Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Importance used as fish bait and human consumption in Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific. [details]

Predators fish [details]

Reproduction dioecious and lack any sexual dimorphism; fertilization occurs externally. [details]
LanguageName 
English peanut worm  [details]
Japanese マキガイホシムシ  [details]
Swedish snäckstjärnmask  [details]
To Barcode of Life (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To Dyntaxa (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Phascolion strombus) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To NMNH Extant Collection (Phascolion strombus, USNM 170967, dorsal) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) 
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Sipuncula Collection (31 records) (from synonym Phascolion strombus (Montagu, 1804))
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (Phascolion strombus, USNM 170967, dorsal)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Phascolion strombus, USNM 170967, dorsal)
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