WoRMS taxon details
Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887
129251 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129251)
accepted
Genus
Cossura longocirrata Webster & Benedict, 1887 (type by monotypy)
Cossurella Hartman, 1976 · unaccepted (subjective synonymy)
Heterocossura Wu & Chen, 1977 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Cossura abyssalis Hartman, 1967
- Species Cossura aciculata (Wu & Chen, 1977)
- Species Cossura alba Hartman, 1967
- Species Cossura bansei Hilbig, 1996
- Species Cossura brunnea Fauchald, 1972
- Species Cossura candida Hartman, 1955
- Species Cossura chilensis Hartmann-Schröder, 1965
- Species Cossura coasta Kitamori, 1960
- Species Cossura consimilis Read, 2000
- Species Cossura dayi Hartman, 1976
- Species Cossura delta Reish, 1958
- Species Cossura dimorpha (Hartman, 1976)
- Species Cossura duplex Tamai, 1986
- Species Cossura flabelligera Zhadan, 2017
- Species Cossura ginesi Liñero-Arana & Díaz-Díaz, 2010
- Species Cossura heterochaeta Orensanz, 1976
- Species Cossura hutchingsae Zhadan, 2015
- Species Cossura keablei Zhadan, 2015
- Species Cossura laeviseta Hartmann-Schröder, 1962
- Species Cossura longocirrata Webster & Benedict, 1887
- Species Cossura modica Fauchald & Hancock, 1981
- Species Cossura pettiboneae (Ewing, 1987)
- Species Cossura platypus Zhadan, 2017
- Species Cossura pseudakaina (Ewing, 1987)
- Species Cossura pygodactylata Jones, 1956
- Species Cossura queenslandensis Zhadan, 2015
- Species Cossura rostrata Fauchald, 1972
- Species Cossura sima Fauchald, 1972
- Species Cossura soyeri Laubier, 1964
- Species Cossura yacy Sousa, Nogueira, Cutrim & Oliveira, 2019
- Species Cossura lepida Tamai, 1986 accepted as Cossura pygodactylata Jones, 1956 (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Webster, Harrison Edwin and Benedict, James E. (1887). The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. <em>U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries. Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries.</em> 1885. part 13, II. appendix to report of commissioner, D.22. :707-758, including pls. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15839855
page(s): 743; note: for Cossura longocirrata n.sp. [details]
page(s): 743; note: for Cossura longocirrata n.sp. [details]
Etymology Not stated, but the likely derivation is from a geographic name, as Cossura (or Cossyra) was a Mediterranean volcanic...
Etymology Not stated, but the likely derivation is from a geographic name, as Cossura (or Cossyra) was a Mediterranean volcanic island known in ancient Greece, now called Pantellaria, located between Sicily and the coast of Africa. There is no obvious link to Webster & Benedict's worm specimens, but the very next genus they created was Ledon, also geographic in origin as a town in northern ancient Greece. Geonames lists only the Mediterranean Cossura instance. Webster & Benedict used a feminine species-group name with it. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129251 on 2024-11-23
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original description
Webster, Harrison Edwin and Benedict, James E. (1887). The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. <em>U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries. Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries.</em> 1885. part 13, II. appendix to report of commissioner, D.22. :707-758, including pls. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15839855
page(s): 743; note: for Cossura longocirrata n.sp. [details]
original description (of Cossurella Hartman, 1976) Hartman, Olga. (1976 [issue for 1974]). Polychaetous annelids of the Indian Ocean including an account of species collected by members of the International Indian Ocean Expeditions, 1963-1964 and a catalogue and bibliography of the species from India. <em>Journal of Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 16(1): 191-252., available online at http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=817&bkid=48
page(s): 234 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Heterocossura Wu & Chen, 1977) Wu, BaoLing; Chen, Mu. (1977). Heterocossura, a new genus of the Cossuridae (Polychaeta: Sedentaria). <em>Acta Zoologica Sinica.</em> 23(1): 97-101.
page(s): 97 [Chinese], 100 [English] [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Read, Geoffrey B. (2000). Taxonomy and distribution of a new <i>Cossura</i> species (Annelida: Polychaeta: Cossuridae) from New Zealand. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 113(4): 1096-1110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35517577 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Zhadan, Anna. (2015). Cossuridae (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from Australian and adjacent waters: the first faunistic survey. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 67(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.67.2015.1639 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 743; note: for Cossura longocirrata n.sp. [details]
original description (of Cossurella Hartman, 1976) Hartman, Olga. (1976 [issue for 1974]). Polychaetous annelids of the Indian Ocean including an account of species collected by members of the International Indian Ocean Expeditions, 1963-1964 and a catalogue and bibliography of the species from India. <em>Journal of Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 16(1): 191-252., available online at http://mbai.org.in/php/journaldload.php?id=817&bkid=48
page(s): 234 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Heterocossura Wu & Chen, 1977) Wu, BaoLing; Chen, Mu. (1977). Heterocossura, a new genus of the Cossuridae (Polychaeta: Sedentaria). <em>Acta Zoologica Sinica.</em> 23(1): 97-101.
page(s): 97 [Chinese], 100 [English] [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Read, Geoffrey B. (2000). Taxonomy and distribution of a new <i>Cossura</i> species (Annelida: Polychaeta: Cossuridae) from New Zealand. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 113(4): 1096-1110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35517577 [details] Available for editors
[request]identification resource Zhadan, Anna. (2015). Cossuridae (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from Australian and adjacent waters: the first faunistic survey. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 67(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.67.2015.1639 [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis of Webster & Benedict (1887: 743): "Head and first two segments without appendages. Fourth segment with single median cirrus; no lateral cirri (branchiae). Capillary setae, dorsal and ventral from the third segment. Anal segment with three anal cirri. [details]Etymology Not stated, but the likely derivation is from a geographic name, as Cossura (or Cossyra) was a Mediterranean volcanic island known in ancient Greece, now called Pantellaria, located between Sicily and the coast of Africa. There is no obvious link to Webster & Benedict's worm specimens, but the very next genus they created was Ledon, also geographic in origin as a town in northern ancient Greece. Geonames lists only the Mediterranean Cossura instance. Webster & Benedict used a feminine species-group name with it. [details]
Grammatical gender Assumed feminine as the species-group adjective longocirrata has a feminine suffix. Subsequent authors treated Cossura as feminine. [details]
