WoRMS name details
Scoloplos (Scoloplos) Blainville, 1828
154950 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154950)
alternative representation (superseded nominal subgenus)
Subgenus
Lumbricus armiger Müller, 1776 accepted as Scoloplos armiger (Müller, 1776) (type by monotypy)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) acmeceps Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Scoloplos acmeceps Chamberlin, 1919 (alternate representation of original combination)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) acutissimus Hartmann-Schröder, 1991 accepted as Leodamas acutissimus (Hartmann-Schröder, 1991) (superseded original combination)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) armiger (Müller, 1776) accepted as Scoloplos armiger (Müller, 1776) (superseded nominal subgenus)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) capensis (Day, 1961) accepted as Scoloplos capensis (Day, 1961) (subgeneric rank abandoned)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) dayi Hartmann-Schröder, 1980 accepted as Scoloplos dayi Hartmann-Schröder, 1980 (original alternate representation)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) dayi Pettibone, 1957 accepted as Scolaricia dubia (Day, 1955) (objective synonym)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) difficilis Day, 1977 accepted as Scoloplos simplex (Hutchings, 1974) (subjective synonym)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) ehlersi Blake, 1985 accepted as Scoloplos ehlersi Blake, 1985 (unaccepted > superseded rank, nominal subgenus no longer required)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) marsupialis Southern, 1921 accepted as Scoloplos marsupialis Southern, 1921 (unaccepted > superseded rank, nominal subgenus no longer required)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) pugettensis Pettibone, 1957 accepted as Leitoscoloplos pugettensis (Pettibone, 1957) (superseded original combination)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) riseri Pettibone, 1957 accepted as Orbinia riseri (Pettibone, 1957) (superseded original combination)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) schmitti Pettibone, 1957 accepted as Califia schmitti (Pettibone, 1957) (superseded original combination)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) simplex (Hutchings, 1974) accepted as Scoloplos simplex (Hutchings, 1974) (unaccepted alternate representation)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) spiniferus Gallardo, 1968 accepted as Scoloplos spiniferus Gallardo, 1968 (unaccepted > superseded rank, nominal subgenus no longer required)
- Species Scoloplos (Scoloplos) texana Maciolek & Holland, 1978 accepted as Leodamas texana (Maciolek & Holland, 1978) (superseded combination (using nominal subgenus))
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Scoloplos Blainville, 1828) Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes [entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522
page(s): 493 [details]
page(s): 493 [details]
description Species with first branchiae on setigers 8-10 or later; without emerging notacicula in posterior setigers
description Species with first branchiae on setigers 8-10 or later; without emerging notacicula in posterior setigers [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Scoloplos (Scoloplos) Blainville, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154950 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Scoloplos Blainville, 1828) Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes [entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]. In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes. vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522
page(s): 493 [details]
basis of record Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 493 [details]
basis of record Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1996). Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta [Annelida, bristleworms, Polychaeta]. 2nd revised ed. The fauna of Germany and adjacent seas with their characteristics and ecology, 58. Gustav Fischer: Jena, Germany. ISBN 3-437-35038-2. 648 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
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Blake, James A. (2000). A new genus and species of polychaete worm (Family Orbiniidae) from methane seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of the systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera of Orbiniidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 41(4): 435-450., available online at http://application.sb-roscoff.fr/cbm/
note: Leodamas raised to full genus, therefore nominal subgenus Scoloplos becomes superfluous [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Leodamas raised to full genus, therefore nominal subgenus Scoloplos becomes superfluous [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Classification nominal Scoloplos (Scoloplos) subgenus is now disused, subsequent to elevation of Leodamas as a full genus [details]Unreviewed
description Species with first branchiae on setigers 8-10 or later; without emerging notacicula in posterior setigers [details]
