WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Mastigonereis podocirra Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm page(s): 108, text-figs. A, B, a, b, K on page 108, plate XXXI fig. 247 [in caption of plate XXXI as "N. podocirra"] [details]
original description
(of Nereis (Nereilepas) stimpsonis Grube, 1866) Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1866). Beschreibungen neuer von der Novara-Expedition mitgebrachter Anneliden und einer neuen Landplanarie. <em>Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien.</em> 16: 173-184., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26723400 page(s): 176 [details]
additional source
Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 page(s): 331, fig. 14.12.a-f; note: as Pseudonereis variegata (Grube, 1857) [details]
additional source
Willey, Arthur. (1904). Littoral Polychaeta from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology.</em> 9(6): 255-268, plates 13-14., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16416472 page(s): 262, plate 13 fig. 13, plate 14 figs. 3-6; note: as Perinereis mendax (Stimpson, 1856) [details]
additional source
McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1904). Marine annelids (Polychaeta) of South Africa. Part I. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa, Cape Town.</em> 3: 17-56, plates I-IV [Published 5th February, 1904]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2188220 page(s): 37-40, plate I figs. 6-10, plate II figs. 11-12; note: as Nereis (Mastigonereis) variegata Grube, 1857 [details]
new combination reference
Kara, Jyothi; Macdonald, Angus H.H.; Simon, Carol A. (2018). Integrative taxonomic methods reveal an incorrect synonymisation of the South African <i>Pseudonereis podocirra</i> (Schmarda) as the widespread <i>Pseudonereis variegata</i> (Grube) from Chile. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 32(6): 1282-1297., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS18016 page(s): 1286-1289, figs. 2-4, table 3 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Lower intertidal. [details]
Distribution From Lamberts Bay, in the Western Cape, to Kidds Beach, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Also recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Namibia, and Mozambique (Day, 1967). [details]
Habitat Very common in the lower intertidal zone among Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) and Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 mytilid beds, living in abandoned tubes of Gunnarea gaimardi (Quatrefages, 1848), and under abandoned barnacle shells. [details]
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