I haven't sought them out but I have 209 papers in my bibliographic database each with lugworm in the title and dealing with arenicolids . Only this one below published out of Japan is different Here it is a reference to our favourite boring spionid. I noted it as odd at the time, but now it is slightly more explicable taken as a mistaken synonym in English for bristle-worm or sea-worm.
If I were a California resource manager I'd like to know when a term is being used newly in a way unique to the local culture, differing from the accepted use (thus care needed when using Google for applicable information). Perhaps someone should now edit Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugworm so that they can find this out.
Takikawa, M.; Uno, K.; Ooi, T.; Kusumi, T.; Akera, S.; Muramatsu, M.; Mega, H.; Horita, C. 1998. Crenulacetal C, a marine diterpene, and its synthetic mimics inhibiting Polydora websterii [sic], a harmful LUGWORM [sic] damaging pearl cultivation. Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin 46(3): 462-466
Cheers,
Geoff
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:40:09 -0800
To: "James T. Carlton" <James.T.Carlton from williams.edu<mailto:James.T.Carlton from williams.edu>>
Jim,
Thanks for sending me the ANNELIDA string that discussed my Live Bait report. While AFS has tried to establish "official" common names for several groups of aquatic organisms, I've never been a fan of the effort. Diverse, local and often colorful common and trade names for plants and animals, including hunters' names for birds and anglers' names for bait and gamefish, though they may be incorrect or improper from certain perspectives, are a part of our ecological culture and I think the world would be a bit poorer if we lost them. Thus I don't share Geoff Read's dismay over the use of "lugworm," the common name used by every bait dealer and angler in California, for Perinereis aibuhitensis, in a report specifically written for California resource managers. Since I also gave the scientific name in the report, I suspected that it would be obvious to anyone to whom it might matter (as it was and did to Dr. Read) that the worm being referred to was not an arenicolid. However, looking back over the report, it seems to me that it would have been appropriate to place the name lugworm in quotation marks in its first appearance.
Regarding Bruno Pernet's comment, the use of lugworm in this context appears to have come out of Asia, rather than emerging in California's bait shops. From the documentation I've seen, bait worm growers and dealers in Asian countries employ a particularly chaotic suite of trade names for their products, with multiple names for each species and multiple species for each name, with little apparent pattern. Lugworm is used for many worms, most of them nereids and none, as far as I can tell, arenicolids, and it happened to be the name that stuck for Perinereis in California.
Harry ten Hove noted a dreadful mistake that I made; I'm grateful to learn of it, and will try to get it corrected in the online report. In that table I had transcribed some information from Steve Crawford's proceedings paper, correcting several taxonomic problems and commenting on others, but I failed to correct that one. I suspect that the all-nighters I pulled trying to get the bait report and the accompanying Live Seafood report completed on deadline may have something to do with that failure. And while I suppose I could try to take some pride in being the first person in two centuries (by Dr. ten Hove's calculation) to list spirorbids in the wrong phylum, in fact I'm only embarrassed.
-Andy
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