Webster, Henry E. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. <em>Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History.</em> 32: 101-128., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35614233 page(s): 119, plate V figs. 45-47 [details]
Distribution Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St....
Distribution Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence Estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), and the Southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Polydora ligni Webster, 1879. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152351 on 2024-06-29
original descriptionWebster, Henry E. (1879). The Annelida Chaetopoda of New Jersey. <em>Annual Report of the New York State Museum of Natural History.</em> 32: 101-128., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35614233 page(s): 119, plate V figs. 45-47 [details]
basis of recordBlake, J. A. (1971). Revision of the genus <i>Polydora</i> from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 75: 1-32., available online athttp://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.75[details]
additional sourceHartman, O. (1941). Some contributions to the biology and life history of Spionidae from California. With keys to species and genera and descriptions of two new forms. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 7(4): 289-323., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822521[details]
additional sourceHartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas.</em> 2(1): 7-124., available online athttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162 page(s): 82 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional sourceIntegrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online athttp://www.itis.gov[details]
additional sourceBrunel, 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 [request]
additional sourcePollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online athttp://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]
additional sourceMuller, 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 athttp://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf[details]
additional sourceFauchald, 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 athttps://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751[details]
source of synonymyDewarumez, Jean-Marie (look up in IMIS) [details]
source of synonymyBlake, James A.; Maciolek, Nancy J. (1987). A redescription of <i>Polydora cornuta</i> Bosc (Polychaeta: Spionidae) and designation of a neotype. <em>Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 7: 11-15.[details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From other sources
Distribution Entire East Coast; California. Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. Downstream part of Middle St. Lawrence Estuary, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), and the Southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley) [details] Habitat Found in brackish waters, in the littoral and sublittoral zones over hard and sand substrate, often abundant in oyster beds. [details]