WoRMS taxon details
Tripolydora spinosa Woodwick, 1964
332209 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332209)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Woodwick, Keith H. (1964). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Eniwetok, Majuro, and Bikini Atolls, Marshall Islands. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 18(2): 146-159., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5508
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Holotype USNM 32610, geounit Enewetak Atoll
, Type locality contained in Eniwetok Atoll , Note Lagoon side of Bokombako (= Bogombogo) Island,...
Holotype USNM 32610, geounit Enewetak Atoll [details]
type locality contained in Eniwetok Atoll [details]
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Type locality Lagoon side of Bokombako (= Bogombogo) Island, Enewatak (= Eniwetok) Atoll, Ralik Chain, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 11.6467°, 162.1562°), on beach rock from high intertidal region. [details]
Depth range Intertidal to 10 m.
Distribution Tropical Pacific and western Indian Ocean: Australia (Great Barrier Reef); Easter Island; Hawaii; Hawai'i; Marshall Islands...
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet spinosa is a Latin adjective meaning 'thorny' or 'having...
Depth range Intertidal to 10 m. [details]
Distribution Tropical Pacific and western Indian Ocean: Australia (Great Barrier Reef); Easter Island; Hawaii; Hawai'i; Marshall Islands...
Distribution Tropical Pacific and western Indian Ocean: Australia (Great Barrier Reef); Easter Island; Hawaii; Hawai'i; Marshall Islands (Eniwetok Atoll); Polynesia; Philippines (Batangas). [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet spinosa is a Latin adjective meaning 'thorny' or 'having...
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet spinosa is a Latin adjective meaning 'thorny' or 'having spines', and may refer: a) to the modified spines present in the fifth segment, described as being heavy-shafted, with a semifalcate tooth at one side surrounded by a subterminal flange with a central indentation; b) to the tridentate neuropodial hooks present from segment 9; and/or c) to the posterior notopodial setae present as a heavy bundle of fine needles in the last 4 segments. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Tripolydora spinosa Woodwick, 1964. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332209 on 2024-11-12
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original description
Woodwick, Keith H. (1964). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Eniwetok, Majuro, and Bikini Atolls, Marshall Islands. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 18(2): 146-159., available online at http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/5508
page(s): 155-156, fig. 4 (6-9) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Williams, Jason D. (2001). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera associated with hermit crabs from the Indo-West Pacific (Polychaeta: Spionidae), with descriptions of two new species and a second polydorid egg predator of hermit crabs. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 55(4): 429-465., available online at http://doi.org/10.1353/psc.2001.0037
page(s): 457-459, fig. 15 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Radashevsky, Vasily I. (2015). Spionidae (Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: the genera <em>Aonides</em>, <em>Dipolydora</em>, <em>Polydorella</em>, <em>Prionospio</em>, <em>Pseudopolydora</em>, <em>Rhynchospio</em>, and <em>Tripolydora</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 635-694., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.22
page(s): 687-689, fig. 35 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 155-156, fig. 4 (6-9) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Williams, Jason D. (2001). <i>Polydora</i> and related genera associated with hermit crabs from the Indo-West Pacific (Polychaeta: Spionidae), with descriptions of two new species and a second polydorid egg predator of hermit crabs. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 55(4): 429-465., available online at http://doi.org/10.1353/psc.2001.0037
page(s): 457-459, fig. 15 [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Radashevsky, Vasily I. (2015). Spionidae (Annelida) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: the genera <em>Aonides</em>, <em>Dipolydora</em>, <em>Polydorella</em>, <em>Prionospio</em>, <em>Pseudopolydora</em>, <em>Rhynchospio</em>, and <em>Tripolydora</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 635-694., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.22
page(s): 687-689, fig. 35 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 32610, geounit Enewetak Atoll [details]
Nontype AM W.47872, geounit Great Barrier Reef [details]
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Depth range Intertidal to 10 m. [details]Distribution Tropical Pacific and western Indian Ocean: Australia (Great Barrier Reef); Easter Island; Hawaii; Hawai'i; Marshall Islands (Eniwetok Atoll); Polynesia; Philippines (Batangas). [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet spinosa is a Latin adjective meaning 'thorny' or 'having spines', and may refer: a) to the modified spines present in the fifth segment, described as being heavy-shafted, with a semifalcate tooth at one side surrounded by a subterminal flange with a central indentation; b) to the tridentate neuropodial hooks present from segment 9; and/or c) to the posterior notopodial setae present as a heavy bundle of fine needles in the last 4 segments. [details]
Habitat In mud tubes among rocks, sand, algae and sponges, at intertidal to subtidal depths. In Philippines found within a gastropod shell of Drutella cornus, inhabited by the hermit crab Calcinus latens (see Williams, 2001). [details]
Type locality Lagoon side of Bokombako (= Bogombogo) Island, Enewatak (= Eniwetok) Atoll, Ralik Chain, Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 11.6467°, 162.1562°), on beach rock from high intertidal region. [details]
