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Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 39(263): 15-82.
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10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x [view]
Day, J.H.
1934
On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar
Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology
39(263): 15-82
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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This paper contains a catalogue of the species of Polychaeta recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar, with a reference to a good description in each case. Within the catalogue are included the names of seventy-eight species collected in this region. Of these eight are new species, and many others have not been previously recorded for this region. A short diagnosis is given of many species where such is not readily obtainable.
Southern Africa
Fauna and Flora, Faunistic inventories, Checklists, Catalogues
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Autolytus bondei Day, 1934 (original description)
Chloeia gilchristi McIntosh, 1924 (redescription)
Dasychone violacea natalensis Day, 1934 accepted as Branchiomma violaceum (Schmarda, 1861) (original description)
Eunice antennata (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Leodice antennata Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Eunice murrayi McIntosh, 1885 (additional source)
Glycera convoluta capensis Monro, 1933 accepted as Glycera cinnamomea Grube, 1874 (additional source)
Halosydna alleni Day, 1934 accepted as Hyperhalosydna alleni (Day, 1934) (original description)
Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934 accepted as Loimia medusa (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Lepidonotus durbanensis Day, 1934 (original description)
Marphysa aenea (Blanchard in Gay, 1849) (additional source)
Marphysa durbanensis Day, 1934 (original description)
Marphysa furcellata Crossland, 1903 (additional source)
Neanthes capensis Willey, 1904 accepted as Neanthes willeyi (Day, 1934) (status source)
Nereis (Ceratonereis) erythraeensis (Fauvel, 1918) accepted as Simplisetia erythraeensis (Fauvel, 1918) (additional source)
Nereis (Perinereis) capensis (Kinberg, 1865) accepted as Perinereis capensis (Kinberg, 1865) (basis of record)
Nereis (Perinereis) falsovariegata (Monro, 1933) accepted as Perinereis falsovariegata Monro, 1933 (basis of record)
Nereis (Perinereis) variegata (Grube, 1857) accepted as Pseudonereis variegata (Grube, 1857) (basis of record)
Nereis (Platynereis) dumerilii striata (Schmarda, 1861) accepted as Platynereis dumerilii (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) (basis of record)
Nereis (Platynereis) hewitti Day, 1934 accepted as Platynereis calodonta Kinberg, 1865 (original description)
Nereis operta Stimpson, 1856 accepted as Neanthes operta (Stimpson, 1856) (additional source)
Nereis willeyi Day, 1934 accepted as Neanthes willeyi (Day, 1934) (original description)
Protula tubularia capensis McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Protula tubularia (Montagu, 1803) (basis of record)
Sabellastarte longa (Kinberg, 1866) accepted as Pseudobranchiomma longa (Kinberg, 1866) (new combination reference)
Scoloplos johnstonei Day, 1934 accepted as Leodamas johnstonei (Day, 1934) (original description)
Terebella schmardaei Day, 1934 (original description)
Holotype NHMUK 1934.1.19.98, geounit Agulhas Bank, identified as Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934
 Homonymy

Junior primary homonym to Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934, replaced by Holthe (1986:130). [details]

 Nomenclature

the usage of this combination in Nereis by Day and his usage of Neanthes capensis Willey, 1904 in Nereis prompted ... [details]

 Nomenclature

Nereis willeyi Day is a replacement name for Neanthes capensis Willey, 1904, as Day wished to downgrade Neanthes to ... [details]

 Spelling

It is important to note that the double-i spelling, as Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934 is correct. The junior homonym ... [details]

 Spelling

The spelling in WoRMS was as 'schmardai', but the correct original spelling is as Terebella schmardaei. The Hartman ... [details]

 Taxonomy

usage combination by Day in 1934. By 1967 he regarded Perinereis as a separate genus, and used the original ... [details]

 Taxonomy

Records for South Africa. However, by 1967 Day was using the combination Pseudonereis variegata (Grube, 1857), and ... [details]

 Taxonomy

As Nereis (Platynereis) dumerilii var striata (Schmarda, 1861). Day reduces Mastigonereis striata, a Platynereis, ... [details]

 Type locality

Agulhas Bank, no precise location. The Agulhas Bank is the region of continental shelf south of Cape Agulhas, very ... [details]

 Type locality

near the low tide-mark at St. James, False Bay, South Africa [details]