African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Palmyropsis Potts, 1910

AphiaID

324809 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324809)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior homonym, subjective synonym)

Accepted Name

Palmyra Savigny, 1818

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Palmyropsis macintoshi Potts, 1910 accepted as Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867

Orig. name

Palmyropsis Potts, 1910

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Species Palmyropsis macintoshi Potts, 1910 accepted as Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (subjective synonym, genus is a junior homonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

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]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Palmyropsis Potts, 1910. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324809 on 2024-04-24

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) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Palmyropsis Potts, 1910. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324809 on 2024-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-05 14:39:51Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2013-11-19 22:38:31Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2017-07-09 22:03:50Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

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Sources (3)

original description 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]

source of synonymy Augener, Hermann. (1922). Revision der australischen Polychaeten-Typen von Kinberg. Arkiv för Zoologi. 14(8): 1-42., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6413310
page(s): 9-10; note: noted junior homonymy and (in discussion, not a formal synonymy) placed sole species as synonym of Palmyra aurifera [details]

status source 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.
page(s): 35, 40; note: placed as synonym of Palmyra. Strictly Palmyropsis is firstly a junior homonym and thus unavailable [details]