WoRMS name details
Corallina Tubularia-Melitensis Ellis, 1755
341049 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341049)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ellis, J., 1755. An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10676206
page(s): 92 [details]
page(s): 92 [details]
Note Mediterranean Sea, Malta
Type locality Mediterranean Sea, Malta [details]
Nomenclature There is no valid genus "Corallina" in Phylum Annelida. Corallina Linnaeus, 1758 is a genus of Algae in the Plant Kingdom.
Nomenclature As Corallina Tubularia Melitensis in Ellis, 1755 this is a pre-Linnaean name, and as such does not enter nomenclature....
Nomenclature There is no valid genus "Corallina" in Phylum Annelida. Corallina Linnaeus, 1758 is a genus of Algae in the Plant Kingdom. [details]
Nomenclature As Corallina Tubularia Melitensis in Ellis, 1755 this is a pre-Linnaean name, and as such does not enter nomenclature....
Nomenclature As Corallina Tubularia Melitensis in Ellis, 1755 this is a pre-Linnaean name, and as such does not enter nomenclature. However, information regarding the species can be used. Here the Corallina "Tubularia Melitensis" is given species status. There should be no hyphen in the name (necessarily artificially included). This trinominal name does not conform to current syntax conventions. At the time 'Tubularia' was not equivalent to either a subgenus or a species epithet. Ellis was describing a "Tubular Coralline", and his description is of "curious tubes with their Animals ...". There is no separate species entity called Corallina tubularia to which C. tubularia melitensis could be a subspecies. The name Melitensis is Latin for Malta, from where the specimens derived. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Corallina Tubularia-Melitensis Ellis, 1755. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341049 on 2024-04-19
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Ellis, J., 1755. An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10676206
page(s): 92 [details]
additional 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 [details]
source of synonymy 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. [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x
page(s): 393 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 92 [details]
additional 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 [details]
source of synonymy 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. [details] Available for editors
[request] source of synonymy Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Perkins, Thomas H. (1998). A revision of Sabella, Bispira and Stylomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 123: 385-467., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb01370.x
page(s): 393 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Additional information Hartman (1959:540) includes a "Corallina tubularia melitensis Ellis in Quatrefages, 1865" in the Sabellidae in her catalogue, referred to Sabella penicillus. Quatrefages (p. 554) had included the name in his synonymy for "Sabella ventilabrum" [Savigny?], also from Malta. [details]Nomenclature There is no valid genus "Corallina" in Phylum Annelida. Corallina Linnaeus, 1758 is a genus of Algae in the Plant Kingdom. [details]
Nomenclature As Corallina Tubularia Melitensis in Ellis, 1755 this is a pre-Linnaean name, and as such does not enter nomenclature. However, information regarding the species can be used. Here the Corallina "Tubularia Melitensis" is given species status. There should be no hyphen in the name (necessarily artificially included). This trinominal name does not conform to current syntax conventions. At the time 'Tubularia' was not equivalent to either a subgenus or a species epithet. Ellis was describing a "Tubular Coralline", and his description is of "curious tubes with their Animals ...". There is no separate species entity called Corallina tubularia to which C. tubularia melitensis could be a subspecies. The name Melitensis is Latin for Malta, from where the specimens derived. [details]
From other sources
Type locality Mediterranean Sea, Malta [details]
