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Polychaeta taxon detailsPerinereis Kinberg, 1865
129380 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129380)
accepted
Genus
Perinereis novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1865 accepted as Perinereis amblyodonta (Schmarda, 1861) (type by subsequent designation)
Arete Kinberg, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Gnatholycastis Ehlers, 1920 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Hedyle Malmgren, 1865 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym; also junior...)
subjective synonym; also junior homonym of Hedyle Guenée, 1857 [Lepidoptera] Lipephile Malmgren, 1867 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Nereis (Lipephile) Malmgren, 1867 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Nereis (Perinereis) Kinberg, 1865 · unaccepted (superseded subsequent rank change)
Stratonice Malmgren, 1867 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish,
recent only
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(2): 167-179., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339443
page(s): 175 [details]
Note Type species Perinereis novaehollandiae...
From editor or global species database
Type species Type species Perinereis novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1866 in Fauchald, 1977. [details]
Etymology Not stated. Perinereis is formed by the name of the genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758, the type of the family, preceded by the...
Etymology Not stated. Perinereis is formed by the name of the genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758, the type of the family, preceded by the Greek suffix peri-, meaning 'near', 'about', or 'around', and presumably refers to the morphological resemblance between the two genera. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Perinereis Kinberg, 1865. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129380 on 2026-04-14
Date action by 2006-09-27 07:06:07Z changed Martinez, Olga
original description
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(2): 167-179., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339443
page(s): 175 [details] original description (of Arete Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(2): 167-179., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339443 page(s): 174 [details] original description (of Gnatholycastis Ehlers, 1920) Ehlers, E. (1920). Polychaeten von Java und Amboina. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der malaiischen Strandfauna. <em>Abhandlungen der koeniglichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Goettingen, Ser. neue folge.</em> 10(7): 1-73., available online at https://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN251726223_0010?tify={%22pages%22:[395],%22panX%22:0.517,%22panY%22:0.628,%22view%22:%22export%22,%22zoom%22:0.656} page(s): 56 [details] original description (of Lipephile Malmgren, 1867) Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 page(s): 50 [details] original description (of Stratonice Malmgren, 1867) Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 page(s): 56 [details] original description (of Hedyle Malmgren, 1865) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part two of three]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(2): 181-192., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339457 page(s): 182 [details] taxonomy source Teixeira, Marcos A. L.; Langeneck, Joachim; Grosse, Maël; Vieira, Pedro E.; Hernández, José Carlos; Sampieri, Bruno R.; Kasapidis, Panagiotis; Bakken, Torkild; Carvalho, Susana; Ravara, Ascensão; Nygren, Arne; Costa, Filipe O. (2025). A sea of worms: the striking cases of the European Perinereis cultrifera and P. rullieri (Annelida: Nereididae) species complexes, with description of 13 new species. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 39(2): 1-82., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS24059 [details] Available for editors  [request]basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details] additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] identification resource De Leon, J.; Goethel, C. (2013). A new species of Perinereis (Polychaeta, Nereididae) from Florida, USA, with a key to all Perinereis from the American continent. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 312: 1-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.312.4535 [details]  identification resource Prajapat, Vaishali; Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio F.; Vachhrajani, Kauresh. (2023). A new species of <em>Perinereis</em> Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Nereididae) and invalidation of two congeners from Western India. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5330(3): 398-412., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5330.3.4 page(s): 402, key; note: key to Perinereis Kinberg, 1865 belonging to ‘aibuhitensis’ group of species [details] Available for editors [request]identification resource Rezzag Mahcene, Hiba; Villalobos-Guerrero, Tuliio F; Kurt, Güley; Denis, Francoise; Daas, Tarek. (2023). A new species of Perinereis Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Nereididae) from the Western Mediterranean Sea revealed by morphological and molecular approaches. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 24(2): 454-460., available online at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/33969 page(s): 463; note: Key to Perinereis species belonging to Subgroup 1A [details] identification resource Teixeira, Marcos A. L.; Fourreau, Chloé Julie Loïs; Sempere-Valverde, Juan; Carvalho, Susana. (2024). Two new records and description of a new <em>Perinereis</em> (Annelida, Nereididae) species for the Saudi Arabian Red Sea region. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1196: 331-354., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/115260/list/9/ page(s): 346; note: Key to the Perinereis species Group I reported for the Arabian Peninsula and Mediterranean Sea, [details] Available for editors [request]identification resource Prajapat, Vaishal; Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio F.; Vachhrajani, Kauresh D. (2024). Two new species of Perinereis Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Nereididae) from the rocky shore of Maharashtra, India, including notes and an identification key to Group 1. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 935(1): 256–282., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2561 note: Key to Perinereis with single bar-shaped paragnaths on area VI (Perinereis group 1). [details] Available for editors [request]subsequent type designation Hartman, Olga. (1948). The marine annelids erected by Kinberg. With some notes on some other types in the Swedish State Museum. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 42(1): 1-137, & plates 1-18. page(s): 72 [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Perinereis is formed by the name of the genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758, the type of the family, preceded by the Greek suffix peri-, meaning 'near', 'about', or 'around', and presumably refers to the morphological resemblance between the two genera. [details]Type species Type species Perinereis novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1866 in Fauchald, 1977. [details] |
