WoRMS name details

Lumbricus thalassema Pallas, 1774

268081  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268081)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Pallas, P. S. (1774). Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur cura P.S. Pallas. <em>[Book series, 14 volumes].</em> Fasciculus 10, pp. 1–41, 4 plates., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27823183
page(s): 8 [details]   
WoRMS (2024). Lumbricus thalassema Pallas, 1774. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268081 on 2024-04-20
Date
action
by
2008-01-14 12:30:06Z
created
2010-04-20 12:15:16Z
checked
2018-11-11 22:22:56Z
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original description Pallas, P. S. (1774). Spicilegia zoologica, quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur cura P.S. Pallas. <em>[Book series, 14 volumes].</em> Fasciculus 10, pp. 1–41, 4 plates., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27823183
page(s): 8 [details]   

source of synonymy van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]   
From editor or global species database
Publication date The publication date is incorrectly stated to be 1766 in the influential monograph of Stephen & Edmonds (1972: 459), but Pallas did not publish the relevant part (10) of Spicilegia Zoologica until 1774. Stephen & Edmonds appear to have used the date of part 1 of Pallas. They get the page and plate figure cited correctly, but the date is wrong. [details]

Spelling This WoRMS record was formerly as "Lumbricus thalassemum" but there is no such spelling in Pallas (1774: 8), who used the spelling "Lumbricus thalassema". It appears that the incorrect 'thalassemum" spelling originated in Stephens & Edmonds (1972:459 [details]