WoRMS name details
Aenone Risso, 1826
324722 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324722)
uncertain > nomen dubium (probably created in error insted of 'Oenone')
Genus
Aenone lithophaga Risso, 1826 (type by monotypy)
- Species Aenone lithophaga Risso, 1826
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Risso, A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. Levrault, Paris, vii + 439 pp., pls 1-12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50455192
page(s): 424; note: Aenone is probably an error for Oenone [details]
page(s): 424; note: Aenone is probably an error for Oenone [details]
Taxonomy Quatrefages (1866: 382) placed the genus and species as incertae sedis in Lumbrineridae. Hartman evidently did not see the...
Taxonomy Quatrefages (1866: 382) placed the genus and species as incertae sedis in Lumbrineridae. Hartman evidently did not see the original in Risso and reports the name combination in her 1959 Catalogues under Lysaretidae as "Risso in Quatrefages" and indeterminable, presumably a decision based on the short description given by Quatrefages. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Aenone Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324722 on 2024-04-24
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Risso, A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. Levrault, Paris, vii + 439 pp., pls 1-12., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50455192
page(s): 424; note: Aenone is probably an error for Oenone [details]
taxonomy source Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 382; note: placed as genus and species incertae sedis in Lumbrineridae [details]
page(s): 424; note: Aenone is probably an error for Oenone [details]
taxonomy source Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 382; note: placed as genus and species incertae sedis in Lumbrineridae [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Probably used in error for the intended 'Oenone' of Lamarck. Risso is aware of both the work of Lamarck and Savigny relating to Oenone-like species (he cites both authors on the previous page), but there is a lapsus in Lamarck in which the spelling Aenone is used instead of the intended Oenone, and Risso may have adopted it. Careless use of variant spellings is not uncommon in the 19th century. In Lamarck Aenone is a nomen nudum (no description), but the name becomes available as a genus name when used by Risso. [details]Taxonomy Quatrefages (1866: 382) placed the genus and species as incertae sedis in Lumbrineridae. Hartman evidently did not see the original in Risso and reports the name combination in her 1959 Catalogues under Lysaretidae as "Risso in Quatrefages" and indeterminable, presumably a decision based on the short description given by Quatrefages. [details]