World Polychaeta Database - Amphitrite (Amphitritides) bruneocomata (Ehlers, 1887)

Polychaeta name details

Amphitrite (Amphitritides) bruneocomata (Ehlers, 1887)

AphiaID

1826403 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1826403)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)

Accepted name

Amphitritides bruneocomata (Ehlers, 1887)

Rank

Species

Parent

Amphitrite (Amphitritides) Augener, 1922 accepted as Amphitritides Augener, 1922

Original name

Terebella bruneocomata Ehlers, 1887

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Terebella bruneocomata Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 237-241, plate 51 figs. 1-5; note: original spelling as 'bruneo-comata' [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Amphitrite (Amphitritides) bruneocomata (Ehlers, 1887). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1826403 on 2026-09-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2025-08-05 23:31:47Z

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Gil, João

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Sources (2)

original description (of Terebella bruneocomata Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 237-241, plate 51 figs. 1-5; note: original spelling as 'bruneo-comata' [details]

new combination reference Augener, Hermann. (1922). Ueber litorale Polychaeten von Westindien. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschende Freunde zur Berlin. (3-5): 38-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43656381
page(s): 47; note: notice that Augener (1922) misspells the specific epithet as 'brunneo-comata' when including the species in the new subgenus, together with Terebella gracilis Grube, 1860 [details]