Peruvian Register of Marine Species

A rare case of a quoted description justifying the authorship of Dyster in Johnston. Johnston reproduces a Dyster ... [details]

The name 'Nereis pulsatoria' clearly came from Montagu and was adopted by Savigny, but probably Montagu's name was ... [details]

The author is Müller as the species Johnston described is clearly a recombination from Lumbricus ciliatus Müller ... [details]

Not stated, probably subtidal depths. [details]

Original diagnosis by Johnston (1865: 195): "Body consisting of about fifteen segments, deeply indented at the ... [details]

Original diagnosis by Johnston (1865: 67): ''Lumbriciform, the body acephalous, distinctly annulated, flattish on ... [details]

Original diagnosis by Johnston (1865: 241): "Body vermiform, with setigerous and uncinated feet to all the segments ... [details]

The specimens that Johnston attributed to Valla ciliata [was Lumbricus ciliatus] were collected from Berwick Bay. ... [details]

England: North Sea (Northumberland); English Channel (Devon). [details]

Nereis tricolor is a mistake, as is Lumbrineris tricolor. The name enters the literature in Johnston's 'catalogue' ... [details]

The Nereis tricolor name is a mistake due to a transcription error by Johnston. He writes: "There is no appearance ... [details]

According to Mackie & Chambers (1990:52) "Several authors have treated Sigalion as neuter, but Sigalion is a Greek ... [details]

Not stated. Johnston (1840) has no mention of a Forbes. However, Johnston (1865: 219) states that "in 1840 I ... [details]

Not stated, uncertain. The Latin word valla is the inflection of the Latin noun vallum, and means 'wall' or ... [details]

Not stated, uncertain. Venusia might refer to the fact that the type species was described as having preference to ... [details]

Not stated. The specific epithet punctata, Latin adjective meaning 'spotted', refers obviously to the presence of ... [details]

"The coralline region, very common" (Johnston, 1865: 241). Tube described as being "generally constructed on old ... [details]

Johnston used the genus Lepidonotus but he includes the MS name of Dyster, which was "Polynoe pellucida" As ... [details]

Serpula conica (Fleming, 1825) in Johnston (1865 [details]

Venusia Johnston, 1865 (Annelida) is a junior primary homonym of Venusia Curtis, 1839 [Lepidoptera; Brit. Entom., 16 ... [details]

The synonymy entries in Johnston (1865: 251) indicate the name Alveolaria was used in the British Museum ... [details]

Museum label name and never an available name. Mentioned only in synonymy to Sabellaria crassissima as a museum ... [details]

Nomenclature British museum label name attributed to Leach, included by Johnston in a synonymy for the purpose of ... [details]

Aphrodita elliptica versicolor Johnston, 1865 is a subspecies without a nominate species. Under ICZN Article 46.1 ... [details]

Hill (1752) is pre-Linnaean and he can not be an author (ICZN 3.2). The ‘type’ for this subspecies is Hill’s ... [details]

Not Terebellidae but Cirratulidae. Not indexed in Hartman catalogue, not seen mentioned in text, but was catalogued ... [details]

Johnston (1840: 178) had one 18 inch epitokous specimen which lacked proboscis paragnaths. Later in his 1865 book ... [details]

The Nereis caerulea name has been little used in the past. Johnston (1865: 155) described it (no figure) and ... [details]

Dalyell's figure (plate XX figure 19) shows what looks like the spirally curved body of a spionid with a pair of ... [details]

Dalyell suggests this species is allied to the syllids. Indeed his plate 22, figures 9-10 show a syllid with ... [details]

Savigny (1822) gives no explanation of his 'Telethusae' family name for Arenicola species so we have no information ... [details]

Family name alternatives Because of changing synonymies and varying interpretations, as well as the synonym ... [details]

Johnston (1865:165) included H. paradoxa Örsted, 1843 as a synonym of Heteronereis longissima (Johnston, 1840) ... [details]

Taxonomists in the 19th Century such as Johnston 1865 placed Cirrhatulus lamarckii under Cirratulus tentaculatus, ... [details]

Objective synonym. Johnston unknowingly redescribed the holotype of Nereis iricolor Montagu, 1804 collected by ... [details]

Other than in listings there appear to be no real subsequent usages as a family name of 'Maeadae', which was ... [details]

Current taxon previously considered to be a junior synonym of Glycera capitata Örsted, 1843, but now regarded as ... [details]

Attributed to Johnston (1865) in the Hartman catalogue. However, as presented Johnston (p.251) was referencing a ... [details]

Shores of Scotland. [details]

Tenby, West Wales, United Kingdom [details]

Milton, south coast of Devonshire England, 50.2583, -3.8590, low intertidal under stone, NHMUK1972.74 [same ... [details]

St Andrews, Scotland for neotype. Originally British Isles, unspecified. Johnston notes "This singular worm was ... [details]

England, Atlantic Ocean. The original description refers specimens collected mainly in Berwick Bay (Northumberland, ... [details]