Polychaeta name details

Potamilla (Potamethus) spathiferus (Ehlers, 1887)

1668515  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1668515)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Canalipalpata (Infraclass)
  7. Sabellida (Order)
  8. Sabellidae (Family)
  9. Sabellinae (Subfamily)
  10. Potamilla (Genus)
  11. Potamilla (Potamethus) (Subgenus)
  12. Potamilla (Potamethus) spathiferus (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Potamis spathiferus Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 278-283, plate 54 figs. 7-11, plate 55 figs. 1-4 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Potamilla (Potamethus) spathiferus (Ehlers, 1887). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1668515 on 2025-05-10
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Gil, João

original description (of Potamis spathiferus Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 278-283, plate 54 figs. 7-11, plate 55 figs. 1-4 [details] 

new combination reference Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 125-126 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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