WoRMS name details
Nereis mollis Linnaeus, 1761
329694 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329694)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (indeterminable from description)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. <em>Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden.</em> 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
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Type locality contained in Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Near Bergen, Norway, Atlantic Ocean. In...
type locality contained in Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Type locality Near Bergen, Norway, Atlantic Ocean. In Linnaeus as "Mari Norvegico" and as collected by A. R. Martin, who contributed numerous marine specimens to Linnaeus, so probably a worm directly examined by Linnaeus. A. R. Martin was Swedish Anton Rolandsson Martin (1729-1785), one of the "Linnaeus' Apostles, who in 1760, did a trip to Norway's west coast, stayed until autumn, and did collections of sea-living animals using Bergen as a base (source Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rolandsson_Martin also (in Swedish) https://web.archive.org/web/20200312141503/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9123 ) [details]
Etymology Latin for soft is 'mollis'
Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda.
Etymology Latin for soft is 'mollis' [details]
Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda.
Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis mollis Linnaeus, 1761. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329694 on 2024-08-16
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Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, Descriptionibus insectorum. <em>Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden.</em> 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 264; note: checklist listing as indeterminable [details] Available for editors
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status source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 280; note: listing for Nereis mollis as species inquirenda [details]
page(s): 509, item 2097; note: There is no reference to previous usages [details]
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additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 264; note: checklist listing as indeterminable [details] Available for editors
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status source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 280; note: listing for Nereis mollis as species inquirenda [details]
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Etymology Latin for soft is 'mollis' [details]Status There are few usages of this name. Johnston (1865: 280) lists it as a species inquirenda. [details]
Type locality Near Bergen, Norway, Atlantic Ocean. In Linnaeus as "Mari Norvegico" and as collected by A. R. Martin, who contributed numerous marine specimens to Linnaeus, so probably a worm directly examined by Linnaeus. A. R. Martin was Swedish Anton Rolandsson Martin (1729-1785), one of the "Linnaeus' Apostles, who in 1760, did a trip to Norway's west coast, stayed until autumn, and did collections of sea-living animals using Bergen as a base (source Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rolandsson_Martin also (in Swedish) https://web.archive.org/web/20200312141503/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9123 ) [details]