WoRMS taxon details

Pelogenia zeylanica (Willey, 1905)

236766  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236766)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Aphroditiformia (Suborder)
  8. Sigalionidae (Family)
  9. Pelogeniinae (Subfamily)
  10. Pelogenia (Genus)
  11. Pelogenia zeylanica (Species)
accepted
Species
marine
(of Psammolyce zeylanica Willey, 1905) Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112 [details] 
Type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pelogenia zeylanica (Willey, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236766 on 2025-04-05
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2007-01-25 09:20:00Z
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Barnich, Ruth

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Nomenclature

original description (of Psammolyce zeylanica Willey, 1905) Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112 [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Pettibone, M.H. (1997). Revision of the sigalionid species (Polychaeta) referred to Psammolyce Kinberg, 1856, Pelogenia Schmarda, 1861, and belonging to the subfamily Pelogeniinae Chamberlin, 1919. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 581: 1-89., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5680
page(s): 35 [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Goto, R. & Tanaka, M. (2019). Worm-riding clam: description of <em>Montacutona sigalionidcola</em> sp. nov. (Bivalvia: Heterodonta: Galeommatidae) from Japan and its phylogenetic position. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4652 (3): 473-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4652.3.4
note: A bivalve always found attached to the dorsal surface of the anterior end of the host, Pelogenia zeylanica, body. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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

From editor or global species database
Ecology Montacutona sigalionidcola is a bivalve always found attached to the dorsal surface of the anterior end of the sigalionid host, Pelogenia zeylanica, body [details]
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Japanese フタコブウロコムシ  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Psammolyce zeylanica Willey, 1905)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Psammolyce zeylanica Willey, 1905)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) 

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