Hi Bruno,
The real lugworms have different names too in Europe, lugworm is just the English term for arenicolids, even if usually adopted in lugworm papers written in English in non-UK journals as in my Wells example of the Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, where there are lots of 'lugworm' papers written by the locals relating to the Waddenzee habitat.
The misapplication to nereidids has evidently started in Asia. Possibly we'll never know why local worm names were translated as 'lugworm'. But certainly worth remarking upon for the non-Californians, non Asians, to whom this usage is a surprise, as it was to me. It is probably a good idea to qualify that Korean lugworms are not the lugworms of long European tradition when writing any scientific report, and that confusion is possible.
A consequence of relying only on common names is possibly demonstrated here, where the authors appear to think that Asian 'lugworms' are arenicolids (as I would have done).
http://www.ukmarinesac.org.uk/activities/bait-collection/bc9_1.htm
Quote: "Other species of Arenicolidae are apparently used for human consumption as well as for fishing bait in East Asia. Trade statistics, based on custom clearance statistics released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, record that 1,119 MT of lugworms and sea lavenders (living), worth 710 million yen, were exported from Japan to Korea in 1997. (Data from March issue of East Asia Economic Information, published by Tokyo-based East Asia Trade Research Board.) Other sources record that some of these lugworms are processed and canned in tomato sauce, presumably for human consumption."
Here's an American lady having a 'lugworm' nereidid (?) dining experience in Korea. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TECEzbybqsU
Geoff
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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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Bruno
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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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