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Polychaeta taxon details

Neanthes mossambica (Day, 1957)

1377501  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1377501)

accepted
Species
Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Nereis mossambica Day, 1957 · unaccepted (superseded alternate...)  
superseded alternate representation of original combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957) Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 14(1): 59-129.
page(s): 78-80, fig. 3e-k [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  (of Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957)...  
Holotype (of Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957) NHMUK 1961.16.22, geounit Morrumbene Estuary [details]
Type locality contained in Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Neanthes mossambica (Day, 1957). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1377501 on 2026-03-03
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original description (of Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957) Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 14(1): 59-129.
page(s): 78-80, fig. 3e-k [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio F.; Kara, Jyothi; Idris, Izwandy. (2021). Redescriptions of Neanthes Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida: Errantia: Nereididae) species from worldwide regions. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 760(1): 101-135., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1443
page(s): 123,figure 5; note: redescription from types [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207
page(s): 410; note: checklist mention only, as in Group IIB 2b of Neanthes. [details] 

additional source Pillai, T.G. (1965). Annelida Polychaeta from the Philippines and Indonesia. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 5(2): 110-177., available online at http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/7733
page(s): 141; note: brief mention as a Neanthes compared to Neanthes manatensis [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype (of Nereis (Neanthes) mossambica Day, 1957) NHMUK 1961.16.22, geounit Morrumbene Estuary [details]
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