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Name

Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 14(1): 59-129.

SourceID

49612

Authors

Day, John H.

Year

1957

Title

The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique

Journal

Annals of the Natal Museum

Suffix

14(1): 59-129

Type

Publication

Note

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). Digitisation was online at journal but is currently (2017) absent

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Abstract

[From introduction] In part 1 of this series (Day, 1951), 144 species of Polychaeta were listed from estuaries or the intertidal zone of Natal and Moçambique. The list included all the known records made before that date and it did not seem likely that the list would be almost doubled within five years. Since then extensive new collections have been made. I have to thank Mrs. Margaret Kalk of Witwatersrand University for allowing me to examine collections from Inhaca Island and Moçambique Island. Further collections have been made by the University of Cape Town during ecological surveys of Durban Bay, various small estuaries along the Natal coast and Morrumbene estuary at Inhambane (Portuguese East Africa). These with two additional records from the literature have increased the number of species to 280.

Geographical terms

Africa
East Africa
South Africa

Bibliographical term

Systematics, Taxonomy

Taxonomic terms

Annelida
Polychaeta

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Lagisca indica Potts, 1910 accepted as Paralepidonotus indica (Potts, 1910) (source of synonymy)
Notomastus aberans Day, 1957 (original description)
Paralepidonotus indica (Potts, 1910) (basis of record)
Pista brevibranchia Caullery, 1915 (additional source)
Scalisetosus fragilis (Claparède, 1868) accepted as Subadyte pellucida (Ehlers, 1864) (source of synonymy)

Notomastus aberans Day, 1957

Depth range

for Lysilla ubianensis Caullery, 1944

Intertidal to 16-23 m. [details]

Distribution

for Leonnates persica Wesenberg-Lund, 1949

Indian Ocean: Persian Gulf (Iranian coasts); Mozambique (Morrumbene Estuary). [details]

Distribution

for Lysilla ubianensis Caullery, 1944

Pacific Ocean: Sulu Sea (North Ubian Island, Philippines); Solomon Islands. Indian Ocean: Mozambique (Inhaca ... [details]

Etymology

for Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957

Not stated, but Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica was evidently named for the country of collection, Mozambique. ... [details]

Etymology

for Polydora normalis Day, 1957

There is no explanation of the name Polydora normalis by Day. 'normalis' means according to rule or normal. ... [details]

Habitat

for Lysilla ubianensis Caullery, 1944

Muddy silt, under boulders and in Thalassa beds, from intertidal to 23 m depth. [details]

Synonymy

for Schistocomus Chamberlin, 1919

Day (1957) moves Schistocomus hiltoni to Phyllocomus. As S. hiltoni is the type of Schistocomus this automatically ... [details]

Type designation

for Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957

Day had two specimens from Morrumbene Estuary. He clearly designates one as holotype ("The larger which measures 35 ... [details]

Type locality

for Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957

Morrumbene Estuary, Mozambique, Indian Ocean, gazetteer location -23.6856, 35.3836 [details]

Type locality

for Polydora normalis Day, 1957

Norrumbene Estuary, Durban Bay, Inhaca Island, Mocambique. There is no geolocation data but a Google maps estimate ... [details]