WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Polynoe (Lepidonotus) macrolepidota Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm page(s): 155; note: As Polynoe (L.) macrolepidota [details]
new combination reference
Rullier, François. (1972). Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie recueillies par Y. Plessis et B. Salvat. <em>Expédition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.</em> 6: 6-169. page(s): 39-41; note: description and figures for identification for New Caledonia specimens [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Harmothoe macrolepidota is a combination in use in ecological reports in New Zealand for a common shallow-water Harmothoe. Other names used earlier were Harmothoe spinosa Kinberg, 1856, and Harmothoe praeclara (Haswell, 1883). Pettibone (1993) assigned Augener's New Zealand usage of Kinberg's H. spinosa to Australian H. praeclara, but the local H. macrolepidota (Schmarda, 1861), an older name, would have priority. The valid name to use is uncertain. [details]
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