WoRMS name details
original description
(of Amaea colei McIntosh, 1926) McIntosh, W. C. (1926). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. 49. 1. On the Structure and Functions of the Operculum and Neighbouring Parts of Mercierella enigmatica, Fauvel, and other Serpulids. 2. On a new British Polychaet [sic]. 3. On a Iarval Siphonophore (?) from the 'Challenger.'. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (series 9) 18(107): 402-424, plates 13-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222932608633538 page(s): 421-422, Plate 16 figs. 1-2; note: described from anterior fragment [details]
new combination reference
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): 495; note: new genus name for junior homonym [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Carrerette, Orlemir; Hutchings, Pat A. (2015). Review of <em>Amaeana</em> Hartman, 1959 (Annelida, Terebelliformia, Polycirridae), with descriptions of seven new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3994(1): 1-52., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3994.1.1 page(s): 4; note: indeterminable from description [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Nogueira et al (2015:4) state: "Amaeana colei was described based on an anterior fragment of 5–6 segments (McIntosh 1926); we could not locate that specimen, but, even if we did, it would still be undeterminable unless complete material from the type locality is found, as with only 5–6 segments it is not possible to determine if the specimen belongs to Amaeana, Lysilla, Polycirrus or even Enoplobranchus, since the differences between those genera are only visible from midbody. Therefore, A. colei is treated herein as nomen nudum." [GBR: the status must be a nomen dubium, not n. nudum] [details]
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