MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804)

ERMS taxon details

Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804)

AphiaID

129914 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129914)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830

Original name

Tricoelia variopedata Renier, 1804

Synonymised names

Chaetopterus insignis Baird, 1864 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129914 on 2025-11-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804). Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php/js/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129914 on 2025-11-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan, Gérard

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2012-07-09 22:25:23Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

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original description (of Chaetopterus insignis Baird, 1864) Baird, William. (1864). On a new species of British Annelides belonging to the Family Chaetopteridae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 24(3): 477-481, plate XLIX figs. 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27559081
page(s): 478-481, plate XLIX figs. 1-8 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [details]

basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231. (look up in RoR) [details]

additional source Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Augener, H. (1914). Polychaeta II: Sedentaria. pp. 1-72. In: Michaelsen, W. and Hartmeyer, R. (Eds.). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Volume 5. Gustav Fischer. Jena. [details]

additional source Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]

additional source Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93. 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179 [details]

additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1919). Annélides polychètes de la Guyane Française. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 25(6): 472-479., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5027145 [details]

additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1919). Annélides Polychètes de Madagascar, de Djibouti, et du Golfe Persique. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale. 58(8): 315-473, plates XV-XVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6316667 [details]

additional source Fauvel, P. (1927). Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. Faune de France Volume 16. Paul Lechevalier. Paris. 1-494., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [details]

additional source Hartman, O. (1951). The littoral marine annelids of the Gulf of Mexico. Publications of the Institute of Marine Science, Port Aransas, Texas. 2(1): 7-124., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22162
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additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors

additional source Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation. 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts]., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/18946 [details]

additional source McIntosh, William Carmichel. (1915). Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids. The Ray Society, London, 3 (1): i-viii, 1-368 (text)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38532650 [details]

additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. Discovery Reports, Cambridge. 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 152 [details]

additional source Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1894). Les Annélides polychètes des côtes de Dinard. Troisième Partie. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, Série 7. 17: 1-395, plates I-XIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35662416 [details]

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.). Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. 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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in RoR) [details] Available for editors

additional source Dicquemarre, Jacques François [aka: l'abbé Dicquemarre, & Dicquemare]. (1778). Menagerie marine , animaux singuliers. Journal de Physique, de Chimie et d'Histoire Naturelle [aka: Observations et Mémoires sur la Physique, sur l'Histoire Naturelle et sur les Arts et Métiers]. 12 (2): 281-285, plates 1-2., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6005995
note: Plate 2 has perhaps the oldest known figure of a Chaetopterus, published 1778, collected from Le Havre [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source Holtmann, S.E.; Groenewold, A.; Schrader, K.H.M.; Asjes, J.; Craeymeersch, J.A.; Duineveld, G.C.A.; van Bostelen, A.J.; van der Meer, J. (1996). Atlas of the zoobenthos of the Dutch continental shelf. Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management: Rijswijk, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-369-4301-9. 243 pp. (look up in RoR) [details]