Hi all -- I don't think that Andy is really responsible for the adoption of this common name; that occurred over the past few decades at the bait shop level, I suspect. Among the population of bait shop owners and marine anglers in southern California, at least, lugworm is now the "correct" (in usage, at least) common name for Perinereis; that's what I call them whenever I buy some (for teaching). If I call them ragworms, all I get are blank stares and a delayed transaction. So I call them lugworms, despite what I know about the "correct" common names for nereids and arenicolids (if there is such a thing as a correct common name, of course). And so the language evolves...
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On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Geoff Read wrote:
Hi all,
This series of "Aquatic Invasive Species Vector Risk Assessments" reports from California might be of interest.
http://calost.org/science-initiatives/?page=aquatic-invasive-species
In the one on live bait by Andrew Cohen we learn that Perinereis aibuhitensis is exported by the South Koreans under the name lugworm! Andrew doesn't blanch at heartily also adopting this name for a nereid, usually known as ragworms, but there probably will be a few eyebrows raised out on the Wadden Sea mudflats where the real, and very different lugworms are most at home.
G. P. Wells? Son of the famous H. G. Wells, and the all time pre-eminent lugworm researcher. Amongst many lugworm works Wells wrote: The Lugworm (Arenicola)- A Study in Adaptation. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, 3(2): 294-313
Cheers,
Geoff
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