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Name

Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 227(1): 1-356.

SourceID

51340

DOI

10.5479/si.03629236.227.1 [view]

Authors

Pettibone, Marian H.

Year

1963

Title

Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae

Journal

Bulletin of the United States National Museum

Suffix

227(1): 1-356

Type

Publication

Link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746

Note

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)

Geographical term

North Atlantic

Taxonomic term

Polychaeta

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Notes (29)

Depth range

for Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956

Low water to about 200 m. [details]

Depth range

for Nereis arenaceodentata Moore, 1903

Low water to about 30 m. Specimens collected swimming at the surface. [details]

Diagnosis

for Phylo Kinberg, 1866

ORBINIINAE with pointed prostomium and branchiae first present from chaetiger 5-7. Posterior thoracic parapodia ... [details]

Distribution

for Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956

Atlantic Ocean: from Massachusetts to North Carolina (USA). [details]

Distribution

for Nereis arenaceodentata Moore, 1903

Atlantic coast of the USA. Records from other areas need confirmation. [details]

Editor's comment

for Lumbrineris ebranchiata (Pallas, 1788)

Included in the three original taxa of new genus Lumbrineris, and Pettibone (1963: 257) designated it as the type ... [details]

Etymology

for Sphaerosyllis longicirrata Webster & Benedict, 1884

The specific epithet longicirrata refers to the fact that "the dorsal cirri [...] are very long for the genus" ... [details]

Grammatical gender

for Trochochaeta Levinsen, 1884

Pettibone (1963, 1976) does not state the genus gender as she usually did. It is feminine (chaeta is transliterated ... [details]

Habitat

for Nereis (Nereis) grayi Pettibone, 1956

In thicky muddy tubes of Sabaco elongatus (Verrill, 1873) (as Maldanopsis elongata), and on muddy and sandy ... [details]

Homonymy

for Disoma Örsted, 1844

Disoma Örsted, 1844 is a junior homonym to protozoan Disoma Ehrenberg 1831 (pls. 1828) Sym. Phys., Phyt., sign. c. ... [details]

Nomenclature

for Lumbrineris pallasii Blainville, 1828

Taxonomists in the 19thC often thought it was a good idea to replace the names previously used by others when they ... [details]

Nomenclature

for Neanthes caudata (sensu Delle Chiaje, 1827)

See comments on Spio caudatus Lamarck, 1818. In brief Neanthes caudata as used by Delle Chiaje is a ... [details]

Publication date

for Aglaophamus dicirris Hartman, 1945

Inadvertently prematurely published in 1945. The full description is not until the 1950 paper, which Hartman ... [details]

Reproduction

for Nereis arenaceodentata Moore, 1903

It lacks a heteronereis stage, but immature and mature specimens were found swimming at the surface of Woods Hole ... [details]

Reproduction

for Paraonis fulgens (Levinsen, 1884)

Sexually mature females found in May (south of Kattegat), August (coastal waters of North America) and in August to ... [details]

Spelling

for Nereis arenaceodonta [auct. misspelling]

Nereis arenaceodonta is a misspelling originally introduced by Pettibone (1963: 162) for the species Nereis ... [details]

Status

for Lagisca Malmgren, 1865

"Since Pettibone (1953) synonymized the type species of the genus Lagisca, L. rarispina (Sars, 1861), with H. ... [details]

Synonymy

for Ethocles Webster & Benedict, 1887

Pettibone (1963) placed both Ethocles typicus and Skardaria fragmentata as Apistobranchus tullbergi. Thus the ... [details]

Synonymy

for Nereis southerni Abdel-Moez & Humphries, 1955

The species was considered as a synonymy of Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1853) by various authors (e.g.: Hartman, 1959; ... [details]

Synonymy

for Skardaria Wesenberg-Lund, 1951

Pettibone (1963) placed both Ethocles typicus and Skardaria fragmentata as Apistobranchus tullbergi. Thus the ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Amblyosyllis cincinnata (Verrill, 1874)

Amblyosyllis cincinnata was synonymized with A. finmarchica by Pettibone (1963), but was posteriorly considered to ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Myriana Savigny, 1822

Chamberlin (1919: 167) regarded the genus Myrianida Milne-Edwards, 1845 as synonymous with Myriana Savigny, 1822: ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Nereis (Neanthes) varia Treadwell, 1941

Replacement name created by Treadwell (1941) for Nereis (Neanthes) paucidentata Treadwell, 1939, and treated as a ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Orbinia (Phylo) Kinberg, 1866

Pettibone (1957, 1963) considered the genus Phylo Kinberg, 1866 as a subgenus of Orbinia Quatrefages, 1866. ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Sphaerosyllis brevifrons Webster & Benedict, 1884

Sphaerosyllis brevifrons was synonymized with S. erinaceus (now in the genus Erinaceusyllis) by Pettibone (1963), ... [details]

Type designation

for Grubea Quatrefages, 1866

Type of the genus Syllis clavata Claparède, 1863, by subsequent designation (Pettibone, 1963: 133). [details]

Type species

for Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758

Type species Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus 1758.
Linnaeus presented two species, Aphrodita squamata and Aphrodita ... [details]

Type species

for Lumbrineris Blainville, 1828

The type species of Lumbrineris is Nereis ebranchiata Pallas, 1788, designated as type by Pettibone (1963: 257), ... [details]

Type species

for Odontosyllis Claparède, 1863

The type species of Odontosyllis is O. gibba Claparède, 1863 by monotypy. However, the type species is wrongly ... [details]