WoRMS taxon details
original description
Okuda, Shiro. (1939). Annelida Polychaeta in Onagawa Bay and its vicinity. II. Polychaeta errantia with some addenda of Polychaeta sedentaria. <em>The Science Reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University.</em> 14(2-3): 219-244., available online at https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.27159/page/219/mode/1up page(s): 228-230, fig. 5 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology "The species [Nereis izukai] has been named in honour of the late Prof. A. Izuka who made many contributions to the study of [the] Japanese Polychaete worm[s]" (Izuka, 1939: 230). [details]From other sources
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Japan [details]
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