WoRMS name details
Spirobranchus ceylonensis Pillai, 1960
332104 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332104)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 20-21, fig. 7H-K [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 20-21, fig. 7H-K [details] Available for editors

Type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka
type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spirobranchus ceylonensis Pillai, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332104 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 20-21, fig. 7H-K [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 20-21, fig. 7H-K [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hove, Harry A. ten and Nishi, Eijiroh 1996. A redescription of the Indo-West Pacific Spirobranchus corrugatus Straughan, 1967 (Serpulida, Polychaeta), and an alternative hypothesis on the nature of a group of Middle Miocene microfossils from Poland. Beaufortia 46(5): 83-96.
page(s): 92 [details]
page(s): 92 [details]





Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka [details]