WoRMS taxon details
Polymniella Verrill, 1900
325265 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325265)
accepted
Genus
Eupolymnia (Polymniella) aurantiaca Verrill, 1900 accepted as Polymniella aurantiaca (Verrill, 1900) (type by monotypy)
Eupolymnia (Polymniella) Verrill, 1900 · unaccepted (rank upgrade to genus)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
(of Eupolymnia (Polymniella) Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
(of Eupolymnia (Polymniella) Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
Taxonomy Nogueira (2008:227): ""a monotypic genus, only known from Bermuda and nearby localities. Polymniella is similar to...
Taxonomy Nogueira (2008:227): ""a monotypic genus, only known from Bermuda and nearby localities. Polymniella is similar to Terebella, only differing from that genus in having branchiae on discontinuous segments. Another genus similar to Terebella, but with branchiae on discontinuous segments, is Terebellobranchia Day, 1951. The only difference between Polymniella and Terebellobranchia is the segments which bear branchiae, but this feature is variable in the latter genus (Londoño-Mesa and Carrera-Parra 2005) and so, if the presence of branchiae in discontinuous segments is considered as a character by itself, Polymniella and Terebellobranchia should be treated as a single taxon. There is no reason not to synonymize Terebellobranchia with Polymniella, but it also seems likely that recognition of any of these genera as valid taxa renders Terebella paraphyletic." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polymniella Verrill, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325265 on 2024-03-19
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original description
Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Eupolymnia (Polymniella) Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Londoño-Mesa, Mario H. (2009). Terebellidae (Polychaeta: Terebellida) from the Grand Caribbean region. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2320: 1-93., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02320p093f.pdf
page(s): 54 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos. (2008). Review of some terebelliform polychaetes (Polychaeta: Terebelliformia) at the Yale Peabody Museum. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.</em> 49(2): 209-234., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3374/0079-032X-49.2.209
page(s): 227; note: review of previous usages [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Eupolymnia (Polymniella) Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 660-661 [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Londoño-Mesa, Mario H. (2009). Terebellidae (Polychaeta: Terebellida) from the Grand Caribbean region. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2320: 1-93., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02320p093f.pdf
page(s): 54 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos. (2008). Review of some terebelliform polychaetes (Polychaeta: Terebelliformia) at the Yale Peabody Museum. <em>Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.</em> 49(2): 209-234., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3374/0079-032X-49.2.209
page(s): 227; note: review of previous usages [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Nogueira (2008:227): ""a monotypic genus, only known from Bermuda and nearby localities. Polymniella is similar to Terebella, only differing from that genus in having branchiae on discontinuous segments. Another genus similar to Terebella, but with branchiae on discontinuous segments, is Terebellobranchia Day, 1951. The only difference between Polymniella and Terebellobranchia is the segments which bear branchiae, but this feature is variable in the latter genus (Londoño-Mesa and Carrera-Parra 2005) and so, if the presence of branchiae in discontinuous segments is considered as a character by itself, Polymniella and Terebellobranchia should be treated as a single taxon. There is no reason not to synonymize Terebellobranchia with Polymniella, but it also seems likely that recognition of any of these genera as valid taxa renders Terebella paraphyletic." [details]