WoRMS name details
Nereis mollis Linnaeus, 1761
329694 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329694)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (indeterminable from description)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. <em>Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden.</em> 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
Type locality contained in Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone , Note Near Bergen, Norway, Atlantic Ocean. In...
type locality contained in Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Near Bergen, Norway, Atlantic Ocean. In Linnaeus as "Mari Norvegico" and as collected by A. R. Martin, who contributed numerous marine specimens to Linnaeus, so probably a worm directly examined by Linnaeus. A. R. Martin was Swedish Anton Rolandsson Martin (1729-1785), one of the "Linnaeus' Apostles, who in 1760, did a trip to Norway's west coast, stayed until autumn, and did collections of sea-living animals using Bergen as a base (source Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rolandsson_Martin also (in Swedish) https://web.archive.org/web/20200312141503/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9123 ) [details]
Etymology Latin for soft is 'mollis'
Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda.
Etymology Latin for soft is 'mollis' [details]
Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda.
Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis mollis Linnaeus, 1761. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329694 on 2024-05-01
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Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. <em>Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden.</em> 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
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): 264; note: checklist listing as indeterminable [details] Available for editors
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status source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 280; note: listing for Nereis mollis as species inquirenda [details]
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
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): 264; note: checklist listing as indeterminable [details] Available for editors
[request] status source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 280; note: listing for Nereis mollis as species inquirenda [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Latin for soft is 'mollis' [details]Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda. [details]
Type locality Near Bergen, Norway, Atlantic Ocean. In Linnaeus as "Mari Norvegico" and as collected by A. R. Martin, who contributed numerous marine specimens to Linnaeus, so probably a worm directly examined by Linnaeus. A. R. Martin was Swedish Anton Rolandsson Martin (1729-1785), one of the "Linnaeus' Apostles, who in 1760, did a trip to Norway's west coast, stayed until autumn, and did collections of sea-living animals using Bergen as a base (source Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rolandsson_Martin also (in Swedish) https://web.archive.org/web/20200312141503/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9123 ) [details]