WoRMS name details
Cirratulus australis Stimpson, 1855
336492 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336492)
unaccepted (unreplaced junior homonym, subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 385-394., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499
page(s): 391, no figures; note: False Bay, Cape of Good Hope [details]
page(s): 391, no figures; note: False Bay, Cape of Good Hope [details]
Note False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
From editor or global species database
Type locality False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
Taxonomy Day (1955) recombined Cirratulus australis Stimpson to Audouinia australis with Cirratulus capensis Schmarda, 1861 as...
Taxonomy Day (1955) recombined Cirratulus australis Stimpson to Audouinia australis with Cirratulus capensis Schmarda, 1861 as synonym. Later he may have realized this was not possible as C. australis was a junior homonym, and in the 1967 monograph he placed C. australis under C. capensis Schmarda, a later name. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Cirratulus australis Stimpson, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336492 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 385-394., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499
page(s): 391, no figures; note: False Bay, Cape of Good Hope [details]
page(s): 391, no figures; note: False Bay, Cape of Good Hope [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 403; note: Checklist listing, referred to Cirriformia capensis (Schmarda, 1861), but note that Stimpson's name has priority, but is unavailable as a homonym [details] Available for editors
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status source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 498; note: Cirratulus australis Stimpson placed under Cirriformia capensis. This is presumably because of homonymy as Cirratulus australis is senior. [details]
status source Day, J. H. (1955). The Polychaeta of South Africa. Part 3. Sedentary species from Cape shores and estuaries. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 42(287): 407-452., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb02216.x
page(s): 418; note: recombined to Audouinia australis with Cirratulus capensis Schmarda, 1861 as synonym [details]
page(s): 403; note: Checklist listing, referred to Cirriformia capensis (Schmarda, 1861), but note that Stimpson's name has priority, but is unavailable as a homonym [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 498; note: Cirratulus australis Stimpson placed under Cirriformia capensis. This is presumably because of homonymy as Cirratulus australis is senior. [details]
status source Day, J. H. (1955). The Polychaeta of South Africa. Part 3. Sedentary species from Cape shores and estuaries. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 42(287): 407-452., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb02216.x
page(s): 418; note: recombined to Audouinia australis with Cirratulus capensis Schmarda, 1861 as synonym [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Day (1955) recombined Cirratulus australis Stimpson to Audouinia australis with Cirratulus capensis Schmarda, 1861 as synonym. Later he may have realized this was not possible as C. australis was a junior homonym, and in the 1967 monograph he placed C. australis under C. capensis Schmarda, a later name. [details]Type locality False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
