WoRMS name details
original description
(of Nereis cylindraria Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P.S. (1766) Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at https://archive.org/details/pspallasmedicina00pall page(s): 117; note: Not described as a nominal species, rather only as its two subspecies, capensis and belgica [details]
new combination reference
Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. <em>Paris: Schoell.</em> Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10571 page(s): 2: 11 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Montfort, 1810 created 'Terebellum' in Mollusca for Nereis cylindraria which is the nominal species name (but suppressed by the ICZN) for two Pectinaria species (phylum Annelida) Pallas described as varieties of it. Montfort's Terebellum is invalid as a junior homonym, and Terebellum cylindrarium is referred back to Nereis cylindraria, a suppressed name, but the valid names involved, originally 'varieties' of N cylindraria, are Pectinaria belgica (Pallas, 1766) and Amphictene capensis (Pallas, 1766) [details]
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