Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Sabellida > Family Serpulidae > Subfamily Spirorbinae > Tribe Circeini > Genus Circeis

Circeis spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Circeis*	Saint-Joseph, 1894	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Serpula cornea*	Adams, 1800	subjective synonym
*Serpula lucida*	Montagu, 1803	subjective synonym
*Serpula sinistrorsa*	Montagu, 1803	subjective synonym
*Spirorbis cornea*	(Adams, 1800)	subjective synonym
*Spirorbis reflexa*	Adams in Mörch, 1863	subjective synonym
*Janua (Dexiospira) spirillum*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Janua (Dexiospira) spirillum lucida*	(Montagu, 1803)	synonym
*Serpula spirillum*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Spirorbis spirillum*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	The Zoological Record: records of zoological literature relating chiefly to the year. Zoological Society of London City: London, UK.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1920). The polychaetes collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. 9B: 1-41, plates 1-6.
redescription	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.
redescription	Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Circeis spirillum (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:131201