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Pseudopotamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789)

130963  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130963)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Canalipalpata (Infraclass)
  7. Sabellida (Order)
  8. Sabellidae (Family)
  9. Sabellinae (Subfamily)
  10. Pseudopotamilla (Genus)
  11. Pseudopotamilla reniformis (Species)
accepted
Species
Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1789 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Potamilla (Pseudopotamilla) reniformis (Bruguière, 1789) · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)
Potamilla obscura Iroso, 1921 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Potamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)
Potamilla troncatula Iroso, 1921 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Sabella (Potamilla) reniformis (Bruguière, 1789) · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)
Sabella oculata Krøyer, 1856 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1789) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 57 [details] 
Neotype  (of Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1789)...  
Neotype (of Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1789) NMW NMW.Z.2001.042.0001, geounit Sandgerdi [details]
Status Here is how Knight-Jones et al (2017: 202) describe the history of Pseudopotamilla reniformis in their introduction: "There...  
Status Here is how Knight-Jones et al (2017: 202) describe the history of Pseudopotamilla reniformis in their introduction: "There seems to be no type material of P. reniformis (described by Müller, 1771, as die nieren-formige Amphitrite from Iceland), but one of his figures shows a spreading radiolar crown with a kidney shape, when viewed from above. Bruguiére (1789: 57, pl. 58, Figs. 19–20) re-described and reproduced Müller’s figures and was the first to give the Latin binomial Amphitrite reniformis. Leuckart (1849) put the species into Sabella and Malmgren (1867) transferred it to his new genus Potamilla. Lastly, Bush (1905) amended Potamilla raising the new genus Pseudopotamilla with P. reniformis as type." Note that they treat Leuckart's Sabella reniformis as a usage of Bruguière's name. However, Leuckart was not the first to use the combination Sabella reniformis. Johnston's 1846 index page 448 has a listing for Sabella reniformis [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pseudopotamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130963 on 2025-07-16
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-25 08:16:00Z
changed
Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2012-12-07 02:51:00Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description (of Potamilla obscura Iroso, 1921) Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Potamilla troncatula Iroso, 1921) Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Sabella oculata Krøyer, 1856) Krøyer, H. (1856). Afhandling om Ormeslaegten Sabella Linn., isaer med Hensyn til dens nordiske Arter [Alternate title: Bidrag til Kundskab af Sabellerne]. <em>Oversigt over det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger.</em> 1856: 1-36., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40359509 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1789) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 57 [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] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1945). The marine annelids of North Carolina. <em>Duke University Marine Station Bulletin.</em> 2: 1-54. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

redescription Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

redescription Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Darbyshire, Teresa; Petersen, Mary E.; Tovar-Hernández, María Ana. (2017). What is <em>Pseudopotamilla </em><em>reniformis </em>(Sabellidae)? Comparisons of populations from Britain, Iceland and Canada with comments on <em>Eudistylia</em> and <em>Schizobranchia</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4254(2): 201-220., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4254.2.3 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (HKRMS) Mak, P. M. S. (1982). The coral associated polychaetes of Hong Kong, with special reference to the serpulids. In: Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China (ed. Morton, B.), vol. 2, pp595-617. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. [details] 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Neotype (of Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1789) NMW NMW.Z.2001.042.0001, geounit Sandgerdi [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority Not O.F. Müller, 1771, as not a binomen at that time. See notes for Amphitrite reniformis Bruguiére, 1879 [details]

Neotype See Amphitrite reniformis for neotype information [details]

Status Here is how Knight-Jones et al (2017: 202) describe the history of Pseudopotamilla reniformis in their introduction: "There seems to be no type material of P. reniformis (described by Müller, 1771, as die nieren-formige Amphitrite from Iceland), but one of his figures shows a spreading radiolar crown with a kidney shape, when viewed from above. Bruguiére (1789: 57, pl. 58, Figs. 19–20) re-described and reproduced Müller’s figures and was the first to give the Latin binomial Amphitrite reniformis. Leuckart (1849) put the species into Sabella and Malmgren (1867) transferred it to his new genus Potamilla. Lastly, Bush (1905) amended Potamilla raising the new genus Pseudopotamilla with P. reniformis as type." Note that they treat Leuckart's Sabella reniformis as a usage of Bruguière's name. However, Leuckart was not the first to use the combination Sabella reniformis. Johnston's 1846 index page 448 has a listing for Sabella reniformis [details]

Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
    Definitions

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English large-eyed feather duster [from synonym]  [details]
To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (77 publications) (from synonym Potamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pseudopotamilla reniformis) 
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 44 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Potamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789))
To The Arctic Traits Database (10 traits) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (187 records) (from synonym Potamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (5 records) 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 080602) (from synonym Potamilla reniformis (Bruguière, 1789))
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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