Serpula Linnaeus 1758 (worm)

Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae

Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824

Parent taxon: Serpulidae according to R. Sanfilippo et al. 2017

See also Clark and Arnold 1923, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1999, Kiessling 2003, Sepkoski 2002, Squires and Demetrion 1992 and Wienrich 1999

Sister taxa: Alpinotubus, Barbafera, Carpathiella, Ditrupa, Dorsoserpula, Filograna, Filogranites, Janua, Josephella, Laminatubus, Mercierella, Nogrobs, Parsimonia, Pentaserpula, Propomatoceros, Protis, Protula, Pseudovermilia, Pyrgopolon, Rotularia, Ruxingella, Semivermilia, Spirobranchus, Spirorbis, Vitreotubus, Weixiserpula

Subtaxa: Serpula (Anellidia) Serpula adnata Serpula batequensis Serpula calannai Serpula canalifera Serpula careyi Serpula carinula Serpula conformis Serpula conica Serpula constrictor Serpula distefanoi Serpula geranae Serpula granulata Serpula intestinalis Serpula lineata Serpula monilifera Serpula octangula Serpula octoforis Serpula pervermiformis Serpula planorbites Serpula prisca Serpula pygmaea Serpula quadrangularis Serpula rectiformis Serpula schubarthi Serpula stolleyi Serpula subtorquata Serpula timorensis Serpula vertebralis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Antarctica (5 collections), Barbados (1), Canada (2: British Columbia, Ontario), Greenland (2), Italy (5), Maldives (2), United States (2: Florida, Massachusetts)

• Pliocene of United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (2)

• Miocene of Chile (3), Cyprus (1), Germany (3), India (1), Poland (2), Romania (4), Ukraine (1), United States (4: California)

• Oligocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)

• Oligocene of New Zealand (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Eocene of Hungary (2), Jamaica (1), Mexico (1), Romania (1), Spain (21), the United Kingdom (16), United States (2: Alabama, California)

• Paleocene of Argentina (23), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Slovakia (4), United States (5: Alabama, California, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (16), Cameroon (1), Chile (15), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (7), Germany (19), Madagascar (5), Mexico (1), Mozambique (1), the Russian Federation (5), Switzerland (8), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (12), United States (261: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (13), Egypt (1), Eritrea (4), Ethiopia (2), France (66), Germany (13), Greenland (59), India (45), Iran (1), Italy (1), Morocco (3), New Zealand (4), Poland (2), Portugal (36), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (43), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (69), United States (1: Alaska)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Germany (2), Greenland (3), Indonesia (5), Italy (4), New Zealand (1), Spain (1)

• Permian of Germany (1), Italy (4), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Germany (6), United States (1: Arizona), Venezuela (1)

• Silurian of United States (2: New York)

Total: 884 collections including 1057 occurrences

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