WoRMS name details

Nereis (Neanthes) willeyi (Day, 1934)

340534  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340534)

 unaccepted (New combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Taxonomy Original name pre-occupied  
Taxonomy Original name pre-occupied [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis (Neanthes) willeyi (Day, 1934). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340534 on 2024-04-23
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed

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original description  (of Nereis willeyi Day, 1934) Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 39(263): 15-82., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x
page(s): 39-40, fig. 6a-c; note: a replacement name for Neanthes capensis Willey, 1904, as Day wished to downgrade Neanthes to a subgenus of Nereis, where the recombination Nereis (Perinereis) capensis (Kinberg) would conflict. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]   

source of synonymy Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From other sources
Taxonomy Original name pre-occupied [details]