Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802

Delgado-Blas, Victor Hugo & Salazar-Silva, Patricia, 2011, Taxonomic catalogue of the Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Grand Caribbean, Zootaxa 2782, pp. 39-66 : 52

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.206833
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6187994
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scientific name	Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802
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Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802 View in CoL

Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802: 150 View in CoL –153, p. 5, figs 7–8.

Polydora cornuta View in CoL .— Blake & Maciolek, 1987: 11 –15, fig. 1A–F (neotype).

Polydoraligni Webster, 1879: 119, plate 5, figs 45–47 (synonymy).— Johnson, 1984: 6.22–6.23, figs 6.13–6.14 (synonymy).

Type locality. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA, intertidal, in decaying wood infested with Teredo , among rocks with oysters.

Type material. Neotype ( USNM 98587).

Records. USA: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Mexico: Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz ( Radashevsky 2005). The species was also reported as a common inhabitant of mud and sand flats in estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico ( Hartman 1951; Foster 1971a; Rice 1978, 1980, 1981; Rice & Simon 1980; Bell & Coen 1982). USA: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama 10–36 m, clayey sand, silty clay, sand-silty-clay ( Johnson 1984 as Polydora ligni Webster, 1879 ); Tampa, Florida, Aransas, Texas, ( Johnson 1984 as Polydora ligni Webster, 1879 ). Puerto Rico ( Foster 1971a).