WoRMS name details
Neopomatus uschakovi Pillai, 1960
329521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329521)
unaccepted (junior synonym)
Species
Neopomatus Pillai, 1960 accepted as Ficopomatus Southern, 1921
- Variety Neopomatus uschakovi var. lingayanensis Pillai, 1965 accepted as Ficopomatus uschakovi (Pillai, 1960) (unavailable as an infrasubspecific name published after 1961, & subjective synonym if available)
recent only
Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 28-32, figs. 10H, 11A-H, 12A-H, plate I figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 28-32, figs. 10H, 11A-H, 12A-H, plate I figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors

Type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka
type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Neopomatus uschakovi Pillai, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329521 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Pillai, Telesphore Gottfried. (1960). Some marine and brackish-water serpulid Polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 3(1): 1-40, plates 1-2.
page(s): 28-32, figs. 10H, 11A-H, 12A-H, plate I figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 28-32, figs. 10H, 11A-H, 12A-H, plate I figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hove, Harry A. ten and Weerdenburg, J. C. A. 1978. A generic revision of the brackish-water serpulid Ficopomatus Southern 1921 (Polychaeta: Serpulinae), including Mercierella Fauvel 1923, Sphaeropomatus Treadwell 1934, Mercierellopsis Rioja 1945 and Neopomatus Pillai 1960. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 154: 96-120. [details]
Other
additional source
Pillai, T.G. 2008. Ficopomatus talehsapensis, a new brackish-water species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae: Ficopomatinae) from Thailand, with discussions on the relationships of taxa constituting the subfamily, opercular insertion as a taxonomic character and their taxonomy, a key to its taxa, and their zoogeography. Zootaxa 1967: 36-52. [details]





From editor or global species database
Lectotype BM(NH) 1954.4.14.7 [details]Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka [details]