African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Palmyra Savigny, 1818

AphiaID

155094 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155094)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Palmyridae Kinberg, 1858

Parent

Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867

Synonymised names

Palmyropsis Potts, 1910 · unaccepted (junior homonym, subjective synonym)

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Species Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Species Palmyra splendens Potts, 1910 accepted as Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 20 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Palmyra Savigny, 1818. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155094 on 2026-09-15

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Palmyra Savigny, 1818. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155094 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-22 07:56:35Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2007-12-15 20:01:16Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2017-07-07 00:28:44Z

changed

Wilson, Robin

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original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 20 [details]

original description (of Palmyropsis Potts, 1910) Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology. 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
page(s): 326; note: monotypic for n.sp. P macintoshi [details]

additional source Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg. (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
page(s): 13 [details]

redescription Watson Russell, Charlotte. (1989). Revision of Palmyra Savigny (Polychaeta: Aphroditidae) and redescription of Palmyra aurifera. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 6(1): 35-53., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.262836
page(s): 40-44 [details]

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Introduced: alien

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