Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Sabellida > Family Serpulidae > Subfamily Spirorbinae > Tribe Spirorbini > Genus Spirorbis > Subgenus Spirorbis (Spirorbis)

Spirorbis (Spirorbis) rupestris Gee & Knight-Jones, 1962

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spirorbis*	Daudin, 1800	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Spirorbis rupestris*	Gee & Knight-Jones, 1962	synonym; alternate representation

Literature

original description	Gee, J. M. and Knight-Jones, E. Wyn. (1962). The morphology and larval behaviour of a new species of Spirorbis (Serpulidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 42: 641-654.
additional source	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.
taxonomy source	Knight-Jones, P.; Knight-Jones, E. W. (1977). Taxonomy and ecology of British Spirorbidae (Polychaeta). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 57(2): 453-499.
taxonomy source	Rzhavsky, Alexander V.; Kupriyanova, Elena K.; Sikorski, Andrei V.; Dahle, Salve. (2014). Calcareous tubeworms (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) of the Arctic Ocean. KMK Scientific Press, Moscow. 191 p. [ISBN 978-5-87317-988-6].

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Spirorbis (Spirorbis) rupestris Gee & Knight-Jones, 1962. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334841