WoRMS taxon details
Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919
129543 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129543)
accepted
Genus
Potamis spathiferus Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Potamethus spathiferus (Ehlers, 1887) (type by monotypy)
Gorbunovia Annenkova, 1952 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Potamilla (Potamethus) Chamberlin, 1919 · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded rank downgrade to subgenus)
Potamis Ehlers, 1887 · unaccepted (Potamethus n.n. pro Potamis...)
Potamethus n.n. pro Potamis Ehlers 1887 = junior homonym
Pothametus [auct. misspelling] · unaccepted (lapsus)
- Species Potamethus breviuncatus Hartmann-Schröder, 1977
- Species Potamethus dubius (Eliason, 1951)
- Species Potamethus elongatus (Treadwell, 1906)
- Species Potamethus filatovae (Levenstein, 1961)
- Species Potamethus filiformis Hartmann-Schröder, 1977
- Species Potamethus japonicus (Johansson, 1922)
- Species Potamethus malmgreni (Hansen, 1878)
- Species Potamethus mucronatus (Moore, 1923)
- Species Potamethus murrayi (McIntosh, 1916)
- Species Potamethus scotiae (Pixell, 1913)
- Species Potamethus singularis Hartman, 1965
- Species Potamethus spathiferus (Ehlers, 1887)
- Species Potamethus littoralis Hartman, 1967 accepted as Perkinsiana magalhaensis (Kinberg, 1867) (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 471 [details]
page(s): 471 [details]
Nomenclature Potamis Ehlers, preoccupied in Lepidoptera (Hubner, 1816), was replaced by Potamethus, nom. nov. by Chamberlin (1919)
Nomenclature Potamis Ehlers, preoccupied in Lepidoptera (Hubner, 1816), was replaced by Potamethus, nom. nov. by Chamberlin (1919) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129543 on 2024-11-13
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original description
Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 471 [details]
original description (of Gorbunovia Annenkova, 1952) Annenkova, N. P. (1952). [New species of polychaete worms (Polychaeta)] Новые виды многощетинковых червей (Polychaeta). <em>Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiia Nauk SSSR.</em> 12: 148-154.
page(s): 152 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Potamis Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338 [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]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
redescription Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1983). Contributions to the taxonomy of Sabellidae (Polychaeta. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 79: 245-295., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/79/3/245/2661635
page(s): 269 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 471 [details]
original description (of Gorbunovia Annenkova, 1952) Annenkova, N. P. (1952). [New species of polychaete worms (Polychaeta)] Новые виды многощетинковых червей (Polychaeta). <em>Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiia Nauk SSSR.</em> 12: 148-154.
page(s): 152 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Potamis Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338 [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]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
redescription Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1983). Contributions to the taxonomy of Sabellidae (Polychaeta. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 79: 245-295., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/79/3/245/2661635
page(s): 269 [details] Available for editors
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Nomenclature Potamis Ehlers, preoccupied in Lepidoptera (Hubner, 1816), was replaced by Potamethus, nom. nov. by Chamberlin (1919) [details]
