Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802

Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802: 150 –153, p. 5, figs 7–8.

Polydora cornuta .— Blake & Maciolek, 1987: 11 –15, fig. 1A–F (neotype).

Polydoraligni Webster, 1879: 119, plate 5, figs 45–47 (synonymy).— Johnson, 1984: 6.22–6.23, figs 6.13–6.14 (synonymy).

Type locality. Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA, intertidal, in decaying wood infested with Teredo, among rocks with oysters.

Type material. Neotype (USNM 98587).

Records. USA: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Mexico: Tamiahua Lagoon, Veracruz (Radashevsky 2005). The species was also reported as a common inhabitant of mud and sand flats in estuaries in the Gulf of Mexico (Hartman 1951; Foster 1971a; Rice 1978, 1980, 1981; Rice & Simon 1980; Bell & Coen 1982). USA: Texas, Louisiana, Alabama 10–36 m, clayey sand, silty clay, sand-silty-clay (Johnson 1984 as Polydora ligni Webster, 1879); Tampa, Florida, Aransas, Texas, (Johnson 1984 as Polydora ligni Webster, 1879). Puerto Rico (Foster 1971a).