Deep-Sea taxon details
Vanadis Claparède, 1870
129150 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129150)
accepted
Genus
Vanadis formosa Claparède, 1870 (type by monotypy)
- Species Vanadis antarctica (McIntosh, 1885)
- Species Vanadis crystallina Greeff, 1876
- Species Vanadis formosa Claparède, 1870
- Species Vanadis minuta Treadwell, 1906
- Species Vanadis tagensis Dales, 1955
- Species Vanadis collata Treadwell, 1928 accepted as Vanadis crystallina Greeff, 1876 (subjective synonym)
- Species Vanadis fuscapunctata Treadwell, 1906 accepted as Vanadis formosa Claparède, 1870 (subjective synonym)
- Species Vanadis uncinata Treadwell, 1942 accepted as Vanadis formosa Claparède, 1870 (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031
page(s): 480 [details]
page(s): 480 [details]
Note Type species V. formosa Claparede, 1870 in...
Type species Type species V. formosa Claparede, 1870 in Fauchald, 1977 <246>. [details]
Etymology The generic name Vanadis is one of the numerous names of Freyja (meaning ''(the) Lady'' in Old Norse), a goddess associated...
Etymology The generic name Vanadis is one of the numerous names of Freyja (meaning ''(the) Lady'' in Old Norse), a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, war, death and sorcery in the Norse mythology: ''L'un des noms de Freia, la Vénus scandinave'' (Claparède, 1870: 480, footnote). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Vanadis Claparède, 1870. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129150 on 2024-04-19
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Vanadis Claparède, 1870. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129150 on 2024-04-19
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Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031
page(s): 480 [details]
basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
page(s): 480 [details]
basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Claparède (1870: 480): ''Le genre Vanadis est caractérisé par l'existence d'un appendice cirriforme [...] à l'extrémité des pieds, et par l'absence de denticules durs à la trompe.'' [details]Etymology The generic name Vanadis is one of the numerous names of Freyja (meaning ''(the) Lady'' in Old Norse), a goddess associated with love, sex, beauty, fertility, gold, war, death and sorcery in the Norse mythology: ''L'un des noms de Freia, la Vénus scandinave'' (Claparède, 1870: 480, footnote). [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine as named after a Norse goddess according to Claparède. The type species Vanadis formosa is in adjectival agreement. [details]
From other sources
Type species Type species V. formosa Claparede, 1870 in Fauchald, 1977 <246>. [details]
