WoRMS name details

Pterosyllis dorsigera Claparède, 1864

338783  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338783)

 unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972
page(s): 560-562, plate VII fig. 1 [details]   
Note Port-Vendres, France, Mediterranean Sea...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Port-Vendres, France, Mediterranean Sea (gazetteer estimate 42.519º, 03.109º). [details]
Depth range Not stated, unknown. Probably shallow water.  
Depth range Not stated, unknown. Probably shallow water. [details]

Distribution Mediterranean Sea, France, Port-Vendres.   
Distribution Mediterranean Sea, France, Port-Vendres.  [details]

Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet dorsigera is the feminine of the Latin word dorsigerous, meaning 'bearing' or 'carrying on...  
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet dorsigera is the feminine of the Latin word dorsigerous, meaning 'bearing' or 'carrying on the back', and may refer to the colour pattern that the species bears on its back, with all the segments between the second and the sixth bearing a lying violet '8' on their surface.  [details]

Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed.   
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed.  [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Pterosyllis dorsigera Claparède, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338783 on 2024-04-26
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2016-05-30 10:07:57Z
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2019-04-11 21:48:19Z
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original description Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972
page(s): 560-562, plate VII fig. 1 [details]   

additional source Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 649-650 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

source of synonymy Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. <em>Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.</em> 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/
page(s): 280; note: with Pterosyllis formosa Claparède, 1863 [details]   

new combination reference Langerhans, Paul. (1879). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira [part I]. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 32(4): 513-592, plates XXXI-XXXIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45240737
page(s): 560; note: as Amblyosyllis dorsigera [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated, unknown. Probably shallow water. [details]

Distribution Mediterranean Sea, France, Port-Vendres.  [details]

Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet dorsigera is the feminine of the Latin word dorsigerous, meaning 'bearing' or 'carrying on the back', and may refer to the colour pattern that the species bears on its back, with all the segments between the second and the sixth bearing a lying violet '8' on their surface.  [details]

Habitat Not stated, unknown. [details]

Specimen Types not retained.  [details]

Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed.  [details]

Type locality Port-Vendres, France, Mediterranean Sea (gazetteer estimate 42.519º, 03.109º). [details]