Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Sedentaria > Infraclass Canalipalpata > Order Terebellida > Suborder Terebelliformia > Family Terebellidae > Subfamily Terebellinae > Tribe Terebellini > Genus Terebella

Terebella gigantea Montagu, 1819

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: nom. dub.

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Terebella*	Linnaeus, 1767	accepted genus name
*Amphiro*	McIntosh, 1922	synonym

Literature

original description	Montagu, George. (1819 [title page date 1818]). Descriptions of five British species of the genus Terebella. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 12 (2): 340-344, pl. 11-13.
additional source	Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 2.. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.
additional source	Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
source of synonymy	Marenzeller, Emil von. (1884). Zur Kenntniss der adriatischen Anneliden. Dritter Beitrag. [Terebellen (Amphitritea Mgrn.)]. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 89(1-3): 151-215, plates I-II.
new combination reference	McIntosh, W.C. 1922. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta: Hermellidae to Sabellidae. London, Ray Society Vol. 4(1) pp.1-250.
new combination reference	McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1915). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. XXXVII. 1. Additions to and remarks on the British Spionidae and Cirratulidae, viz. on Spio martinensis, Mesnil, Nerinides longirostris, De Quatrefages, N. tridentata, Southern, Polydora coeca, Oersted, Aonides paucibranchiata, Southern, Chaetozone alata, Southern, C. killariensis, Southern, and Macrochaeta clavicornis, Sars. 2. On the British Terebellidae. 3. On the Terebellidae dredged by H.M.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870, and by the 'Knight Errant' in 1882. 4. On the Chaetopteridae, Amphictenidae, and Ampharetidae dredged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, by Dr. Whiteaves in 1871-1873. 5. On the Ampharetidae and Terebellidae dredged by Canon A. M. Norman off Norway. 6. On the occurrence of one of the Pisionidae at St. Andrews. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 8, 15(85): 1-58, plates I-III.
status source	Lavesque, Nicolas; Daffe, Guillemine; Londoño-Mesa, Mario H.; Hutchings, Pat. (2021). Revision of the French Terebellidae sensu stricto (Annelida, Terebelliformia), with descriptions of nine new species. Zootaxa. 5038(1): 1-63.
status source	Martin, Daniel; Capa, Maria; Martínez, Alejandro; Costa, Ana Cristina. (2022). Taxonomic implications of describing a new species of Loimia (Annelida, Terebellidae) with two size-dependent morphotypes. European Journal of Taxonomy. 833: 60-96.
status source	McIntosh, W.C. 1922. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta: Hermellidae to Sabellidae. London, Ray Society Vol. 4(1) pp.1-250.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Terebella gigantea Montagu, 1819. 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:332474