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Polychaeta taxon detailsHermenia Grube, 1856
206489 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206489)
accepted
Genus
Hermenia verruculosa Grube, 1856 (type by monotypy)
marine,
recent only
feminine
Grube, A.E. 1856 (pub. 1857). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quae in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A.S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. [Part 1] Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn 1856: 44-62., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35632990
page(s): 44 [details]
Note Type species H. verruculosa Grube 1856
From editor or global species database
Type species Type species H. verruculosa Grube 1856 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Hermenia Grube, 1856. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206489 on 2026-09-29
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original description
Grube, A.E. 1856 (pub. 1857). Annulata Örstediana. Enumeratio Annulatorum, quae in itinere per Indiam occidentalem et Americam centralem annis 1845-1848 suscepto legit cl. A.S. Örsted, adjectis speciebus nonnullis a cl. H. Kröyero in itinere ad Americam meridionalem collectis. [Part 1] Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn 1856: 44-62., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35632990
page(s): 44 [details] taxonomy source Salazar-Silva, Patricia; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2025). Revision of Hermenia with descriptions of five new species and a new genus (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) [Revisión de Hermenia con descripciones de cinco nuevas especies y un género nuevo (Polychaeta: Polynoidae)]. <em>Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad.</em> 96: e965648: 1-32., available online at https://revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/view/5648 note: The authors use an authorship of "Grube & Örsted in Grube, 1856" for Grube's taxa. This is not justified, and here plain Grube is used, as used by earlier taxonomists (see authorship explanation in N... The authors use an authorship of "Grube & Örsted in Grube, 1856" for Grube's taxa. This is not justified, and here plain Grube is used, as used by earlier taxonomists (see authorship explanation in Notes.)
 [request]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 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] redescription Pettibone, Marian H. (1975). Review of the genus <i>Hermenia</i>, with a description of a new species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Lepidonotinae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 88(22): 233-248., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34561231 page(s): 234; note: also key to species [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Authority Grube (1856: 44) gives the authority for Hermenia as "Gr. Örd. nov.gen." However, Grube's article title explains that the specimens were [here in translation] "collected by A.S. Örsted during a journey through the West Indies and Central America undertaken in the years 1845-1848, with the addition of some species collected by H. Kröyer during a journey to South America". Thus Grube was acknowledging the respective collectors, perhaps as a way of distinguishing between the two collectors. There is no evidence from the presentation that A.S. Örsted or Kröyer contributed text and thus Grube is here regarded as the sole author of Hermenia and the other taxa in his article. A.S. Örsted was primarily a botanist and contributed no works on Annelida subsequent to 1845 (the start year of his South American journey on which the polychaetes were collected), but instead published many works on the flora he collected in S. America during that period. However, Salazar-Silva & Salazar-Vallejo (2025) prefer to present the Hermenia authorship as Grube & Örsted in Grube, 1856. The Salazars cite their synonymies as if they follow prior authors who have used the Grube & Örsted authorship, but this is not correct. For example the 1959 Hartman catalogue attributes the authorship solely to Grube, as does the review of Pettibone,1975. The issue of a simple or double authorship has been discussed with Sergio Salazar prior to the publication of the current article. Nomenclature experts consulted by G Read also had the opinion that Grube was the sole author according to the Code 4th edition. [G Read, January 2026] [details]Grammatical gender Feminine. Grube created type species Hermenia verruculosa with a feminine suffix epithet. Hermenia itself is a feminine personal name of Greek origin. [details] Type species Type species H. verruculosa Grube 1856 [details] |
