WoRMS taxon details
Sthenelanella uniformis Moore, 1910
332194 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332194)
accepted
Species
Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Moore, John Percy. (1910). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. "Albatross" off the coast of Southern California in 1904: II. Polynoidae, Aphroditidae and Segaleonidae [sic, for Sigalionidae]. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 62: 328-402, plates XXVIII-XXXIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5526353
page(s): 391-395, plate 33, figures 105-112; note: Station unknown (to Moore) [details]
page(s): 391-395, plate 33, figures 105-112; note: Station unknown (to Moore) [details]
Holotype USNM 17385, geounit California
, Note Southern California, but not known precisely. ...
Holotype USNM 17385, geounit California [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Southern California, but not known precisely. Moore (1910) reports he had no station number for the specimen, and gives no location, whereas his practice in his report was, for each species, to give a station number, plus a named location, plus a latitude and longitude, and depth. The USNM collection record for the holotype gives their "precise locality' field as San Diego Bay, but there cannot be any foundation to this entry, as Moore did not have any location data, and gives no collection date for the specimen. Pettibone (1969) also confirms the type locality is unknown. The Albatross sampled both off the Monterey region and off the San Diego region. However, if the month date of the USNM collection record is genuine, and not invented, then it is possible the holotype comes from the general region of San Diego. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sthenelanella uniformis Moore, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332194 on 2025-04-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Moore, John Percy. (1910). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. "Albatross" off the coast of Southern California in 1904: II. Polynoidae, Aphroditidae and Segaleonidae [sic, for Sigalionidae]. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 62: 328-402, plates XXVIII-XXXIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5526353
page(s): 391-395, plate 33, figures 105-112; note: Station unknown (to Moore) [details]
original description (of Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941) Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1941). On a collection of Polychaeta from Southern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 40(1): 16-60, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34209137
page(s): 26-27, plate 5 figs. 1-3 [details]
page(s): 391-395, plate 33, figures 105-112; note: Station unknown (to Moore) [details]
original description (of Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941) Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1941). On a collection of Polychaeta from Southern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 40(1): 16-60, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34209137
page(s): 26-27, plate 5 figs. 1-3 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Pettibone, Marian H. (1969). The genera Sthenelanella Moore and Euleanira Horst (Polychaeta, Sigalionidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 82: 429-438., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/3410
page(s): 431; note: redescription. Holotype location is unknown. Reports "The feltage notosetae and spinning glands were overlooked by Moore ( 1910), but were observed by Hartman (1939) and the Berkeleys (1941 ). [details]
redescription Blake, J.A. 1995. Family Sigalionidae Kinberg, 1856. pages 189-206. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 5 - The Annelida Part 2. Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Syllidae and scale-bearing families), Amphinomida, and Eunicida. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
page(s): 431; note: redescription. Holotype location is unknown. Reports "The feltage notosetae and spinning glands were overlooked by Moore ( 1910), but were observed by Hartman (1939) and the Berkeleys (1941 ). [details]
redescription Blake, J.A. 1995. Family Sigalionidae Kinberg, 1856. pages 189-206. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 5 - The Annelida Part 2. Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Syllidae and scale-bearing families), Amphinomida, and Eunicida. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
Other
additional source
Fauchald, 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 at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1961). Polychaetous annelids from California. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 25: 1-226., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5214802
page(s): 54; note: reports the species is very common at shelf and slope depths in Southern California [details]
biology source Tilic, Ekin; Geratz, Alicia; Rouse, Greg W.; Bartolomaeus, Thomas. (2021). Notopodial “spinning glands” of Sthenelanella (Annelida: Sigalionidae) are modified chaetal sacs. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> Efirst (06 April 2021): 1-12., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ivb.12334 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1961). Polychaetous annelids from California. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 25: 1-226., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5214802
page(s): 54; note: reports the species is very common at shelf and slope depths in Southern California [details]
biology source Tilic, Ekin; Geratz, Alicia; Rouse, Greg W.; Bartolomaeus, Thomas. (2021). Notopodial “spinning glands” of Sthenelanella (Annelida: Sigalionidae) are modified chaetal sacs. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> Efirst (06 April 2021): 1-12., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ivb.12334 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 17385, geounit California [details]
From editor or global species database
Habitat Hartman (1961: 54) reports Sthenelanella uniformis is "very commonly taken in grab samples from shelf and slope depths of southern California, especially from silts, mixed bottoms, and in ophiuriod associations. Specimens are encased in long, branched mucoid tubes which are removed from the animal with difficulty, and may measure 5 times as long as the specimen; the branches consist of lateral extensions of the main shaft of somewhat smaller diameter. Larger tubes are 10 to 15 cm long and 5 to 7 mm across. [details]Identification Tilic et al (2021:11 of 12) and Struck et al (2005: 246) report different molecular sequences for Sthenelanella uniformis, but it is not yet clear what has caused this mismatch. The view of Tilic et al is that they have not misidentified their specimen. [details]
Specimen USNM 17385. Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM); Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia [details]
Type locality Southern California, but not known precisely. Moore (1910) reports he had no station number for the specimen, and gives no location, whereas his practice in his report was, for each species, to give a station number, plus a named location, plus a latitude and longitude, and depth. The USNM collection record for the holotype gives their "precise locality' field as San Diego Bay, but there cannot be any foundation to this entry, as Moore did not have any location data, and gives no collection date for the specimen. Pettibone (1969) also confirms the type locality is unknown. The Albatross sampled both off the Monterey region and off the San Diego region. However, if the month date of the USNM collection record is genuine, and not invented, then it is possible the holotype comes from the general region of San Diego. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | コブオイウロコムシ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sthenelanella uniformis)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (3 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (3 records) (from synonym Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 17385)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sthenelanella uniformis)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (3 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (3 records) (from synonym Sthenelanella atypica Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 17385)
To ITIS
