WoRMS taxon details
Polydora spondylana Mohammad, 1973
330952 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330952)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mohammad, Murad-B.M. (1973). New species and records of polychaete annelids from Kuwait, Arabian Gulf. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 52(1): 23-44., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1973.tb01876.x
page(s): 37-38, fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 37-38, fig. 8 [details]
Holotype NHMUK 1971.52, geounit Persian Gulf
, Note Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait, Persian...
Holotype NHMUK 1971.52, geounit Persian Gulf [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait, Persian Gulf (28º52'N, 48º17'E), below tide-mark, at a depth of 2 to 3 m, in an irregular, blue-black, nacreous ''blister'' formed on the inner surface of the shell of a live thorny oyster, Spondylus sp. [details]
Depth range Below tide-mark, at a depth of 2 to 3 m.
Distribution Persian Gulf: Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait.
Etymology The specific epithet spondylana is composed by the name of the genus of the thorhy oyster on which the species was found,...
Depth range Below tide-mark, at a depth of 2 to 3 m. [details]
Distribution Persian Gulf: Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait.
Distribution Persian Gulf: Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet spondylana is composed by the name of the genus of the thorhy oyster on which the species was found,...
Etymology The specific epithet spondylana is composed by the name of the genus of the thorhy oyster on which the species was found, Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758, followed by the Latin suffix -ana (masculine. -anus), meaning 'of' or 'pertaining to', referring to the connection between the two taxa. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora spondylana Mohammad, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330952 on 2024-09-20
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Mohammad, Murad-B.M. (1973). New species and records of polychaete annelids from Kuwait, Arabian Gulf. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 52(1): 23-44., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1973.tb01876.x
page(s): 37-38, fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 37-38, fig. 8 [details]
Holotype NHMUK 1971.52, geounit Persian Gulf [details]
From editor or global species database
Association The species was found in an irregular, blue-black, nacreous ''blister'' formed on the inner surface of the shell of a live thorny oyster Spondylus sp. [details]Depth range Below tide-mark, at a depth of 2 to 3 m. [details]
Distribution Persian Gulf: Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet spondylana is composed by the name of the genus of the thorhy oyster on which the species was found, Spondylus Linnaeus, 1758, followed by the Latin suffix -ana (masculine. -anus), meaning 'of' or 'pertaining to', referring to the connection between the two taxa. [details]
Habitat In an irregular, blue-black, nacreous ''blister'' formed on the inner surface of the shell of a live thorny oyster Spondylus sp., colledted below tide-mark, at a depth of 2 to 3 m. [details]
Reproduction A long chain of spherical, orange, egg-sacs was found attached alongside the spionid to the wall of its canal in the shell of the host. [details]
Type locality Ras Al-Jlayah (= Al-Julaia'a), Kuwait, Persian Gulf (28º52'N, 48º17'E), below tide-mark, at a depth of 2 to 3 m, in an irregular, blue-black, nacreous ''blister'' formed on the inner surface of the shell of a live thorny oyster, Spondylus sp. [details]