WoRMS name details
Nereis splendida [auct. attributed to Blainville, 1825]
1026549 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1026549)
unaccepted (error for Blainville's intended Nereis clava)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Nereis clava Blainville, 1825) Blainville, Henri M. D. de. (1825). NERÉIDE <i>Nereis</i> (Chétopodes ), [alphabetical dictionary entry]. <em>[multi-volume book] Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'apres l'état actuel de nos connaisance, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 34, pp. 408-455. Strasbourg and Paris, FG Levrault., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303363
page(s): 439, also plates as Nephtys hombergii [details]
page(s): 439, also plates as Nephtys hombergii [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis splendida [auct. attributed to Blainville, 1825]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1026549 on 2024-04-26
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(of Nereis clava Blainville, 1825) Blainville, Henri M. D. de. (1825). NERÉIDE <i>Nereis</i> (Chétopodes ), [alphabetical dictionary entry]. <em>[multi-volume book] Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'apres l'état actuel de nos connaisance, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 34, pp. 408-455. Strasbourg and Paris, FG Levrault., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303363
page(s): 439, also plates as Nephtys hombergii [details]
basis of record Blainville, Henri M. D. de. (1825). NERÉIDE <i>Nereis</i> (Chétopodes ), [alphabetical dictionary entry]. <em>[multi-volume book] Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'apres l'état actuel de nos connaisance, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 34, pp. 408-455. Strasbourg and Paris, FG Levrault., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303363
page(s): 439; note: includes name N. splendida with intended name Nereis clava, thus creating later uncertainty which should be used. Blainville intended the name to be Nereis clava [details]
additional source Blanchard, E.; Castelnau, F.; Lucas, P. H. (1840). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés, annelides, crustacés, arachnides, myriapodes et insectes. <em>[Book, 5 volumes, Annelides volume 4].</em> M. Duménil, 1840, Paris., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/47104
page(s): 19; note: usage of Nereis splendida Blainville as synonym of Nephtys hombergii [details]
additional source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Conde-Vela, Victor M. (2021). Revision of the species confused with “Nereis falsa” de Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida, Nereididae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 779: 1-70., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1579
page(s): 19; note: Confused examination of 'Nereis splendida' of Blainville. See editor's note. [details] Available for editors
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additional source 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): 271; note: listing as "splendida Blainville, 1825" "indeterminable" [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 439, also plates as Nephtys hombergii [details]
basis of record Blainville, Henri M. D. de. (1825). NERÉIDE <i>Nereis</i> (Chétopodes ), [alphabetical dictionary entry]. <em>[multi-volume book] Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'apres l'état actuel de nos connaisance, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suivi d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 34, pp. 408-455. Strasbourg and Paris, FG Levrault., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303363
page(s): 439; note: includes name N. splendida with intended name Nereis clava, thus creating later uncertainty which should be used. Blainville intended the name to be Nereis clava [details]
additional source Blanchard, E.; Castelnau, F.; Lucas, P. H. (1840). Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés, annelides, crustacés, arachnides, myriapodes et insectes. <em>[Book, 5 volumes, Annelides volume 4].</em> M. Duménil, 1840, Paris., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/47104
page(s): 19; note: usage of Nereis splendida Blainville as synonym of Nephtys hombergii [details]
additional source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Conde-Vela, Victor M. (2021). Revision of the species confused with “Nereis falsa” de Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida, Nereididae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 779: 1-70., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1579
page(s): 19; note: Confused examination of 'Nereis splendida' of Blainville. See editor's note. [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source 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): 271; note: listing as "splendida Blainville, 1825" "indeterminable" [details] Available for editors
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Editor's comment Blainville included these words when naming a species p.439 as "La N. éclatante; N. splendida, Nereis clava, Leach", but it is clear later that Nereis clava was intended as the species name. Subsequent workers were and are uncertain why he included 'N. splendida', but it is the Latin for the informal name 'éclatante'. Blainville also uses it for another species on p.443, N. splendida Savigny (a hesionid), thus creating a homonym pair in his own work if treated as the intended name rather than N. clava. Mostly the inclusion has been disregarded, and it does not appear to have been used as a valid name, rather than N. clava, in the following decades. Later authors including Johnston and Quatrefages thought Blainville's presentation was unsound. See also similar explantions under the entry for Nereis clava. Salazar-Vallejo et al (2021: 19), when discussing Blainville's usages of N splendida as a potential senior homonym to a Grube species, Nereis splendida, add further uncertainty by stating that "Nereis splendida de Blainville, 1825 [assumed to be the usage for N. clava but the page number is not given] refers to a nephtyid polychaete, which would be a junior synonym of Nephtys hombergi Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 according to Audouin & Milne-Edwards (1833: 257) and de Quatrefages (1866a: 434)." However, that is an incorrect interpretation of the facts, and Salazar-Vallejo et al (2021) appear to be unaware of the double use of 'N splendida' by Blainville, neither of which are valid names authored by him. Again see the extensive notes for Nereis clava Blainville. [details]
