WoRMS name details
original description
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 [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]
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]
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