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AfReMaS name detailsNereis mendax Stimpson, 1855
337301 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337301)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (indeterminable, type possibly lost)
Species
marine,
recent only
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 385-394., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499
page(s): 392 [no figures] [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis mendax Stimpson, 1855. 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=337301 on 2026-09-17
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. Nereis mendax Stimpson, 1855. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337301 on 2026-09-17
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original description
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 385-394., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499
page(s): 392 [no figures] [details] taxonomy source Grube, A. E. (1867). Anneliden. <em>Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil.</em> 2(3.2): 1-46, plates I-IV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11710832 page(s): 18-19; note: Grube compares his new Nereis (Nereilepas) stimpsonis with Stimpson's Nereis mendax, also from the Cape, South Africa. [details] source of synonymy 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): 293; note: listing questionably linking Nereis mendax to Pseudonereis variegata [details] new combination reference 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 [details] status source 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): 1283; note: Nereis mendax considered as 'indeterminable' [details] Available for editors  |