WoRMS name details
original description
Dalyell, J. G. (1853). The Powers of the Creator Displayed in the Creation: or, Observations on Life Amidst the Various Forms of the Humbler Tribes of Animated Nature: with Practical Comments and Illustrations. Volume II. xiii + 359 pp., 46 pls. John van Voorst. London., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18804951 page(s): 156-157, plate XX figs. 19-20 [details]
basis of record
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]
From editor or global species database
Status Dalyell's figure (plate XX figure 19) shows what looks like the spirally curved body of a spionid with a pair of long tentacles. Both Johnston (1865: 202) and McIntosh (1915: 196) suggested Nereis contorta was a Polydora-group spionid. However, either it does not have chaetiger 5 spines or Dalyell failed to detect them. Nereis contorta is likely a spionid and definitely not a nereidid. [details]
Type locality Scotland unspecified, but perhaps the coast near Edinburgh where Dalyell lived at times [details]
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