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Polychaeta name detailsBrada whiteavesii McIntosh, 1885
327269 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:327269)
unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
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marine,
recent only
McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426
page(s): 371-371, plate XLV figs. 3-4, plate XXIIIA figs. 9-10 [details] 
Note Queen Charlotte Sound, CANADA, (gazetteer) N...
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Type locality Queen Charlotte Sound, CANADA, (gazetteer) N 51° 29' 58''W 128° 30' 11'', 18 m (10 fathoms). There is no Challenger Station mentioned and it appears the material came from Whiteaves' Canadian collections sent directly to McIntosh (elsewhere in the volume said to be from Gulf of St Lawrence), so it is not clear why the location McIntosh gives (without a geolocation) is the Canadian Queen Charlotte Sound which is in the Canadian Pacific. However, Whiteaves did sample there. There appear to be no other sounds of the same name. See also the Etymology note. Brada whiteavesii is not from New Zealand as is incorrectly reported elsewhere. [details]
Etymology named after the Canadian collector "Mr Whiteaves". Joseph Frederick Whiteaves was a Canadian biologist contemporary of...
Etymology named after the Canadian collector "Mr Whiteaves". Joseph Frederick Whiteaves was a Canadian biologist contemporary of McIntosh who did marine dredging, four articles of which mention the Canadian Queen Charlotte islands and sound in British Columbia. WoRMS has 45 articles by Whiteaves relating to Canadian biology, including his Canadian marine biology work. McIntosh indicates the Canadian origin of the species as follows: "Named after Mr. Whiteaves, who first brought it under my notice during his dredging expeditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence". It the specimen had been collected by the Challenger biologists McIntosh would have given a Challenger station number, and the geolocation, and the environment details as he routinely did throughout his report volume. McIntosh's Challenger report includes at least four other mentions of Whiteaves' Polychaeta material (dredged in the Gulf of St Lawrence) which he clearly had received to identify for Whiteaves.Later McIntosh (1911) names two further Canadian Polychaeta after Whiteaves (Nevaya whiteavesi and Chaetozone whiteavesi) and he published a report on polychaetes from Whiteaves' St Lawrence dredging. As an example from Whiteaves himself of their collaboration Whiteaves writes on p.78 in his 1901 "Catalogue of the marine Invertebrata of eastern Canada" that "Another species of Ephesia (apparently from the writer's [ie Whiteaves'] dredgings in the Gulf of St. Lawrence) is mentioned but not described, under the name E. Canadensis, by Professor M'Intosh, on page 362, of the twelfth volume of the Zoological Reports of H.M.S. Challenger." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Brada whiteavesii McIntosh, 1885. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327269 on 2026-06-30
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McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426
page(s): 371-371, plate XLV figs. 3-4, plate XXIIIA figs. 9-10 [details] additional source Glasby, C.J. and Read, Geoffrey B. 1998. A chronological review of polychaete taxonomy in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(3): 347-374., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1998.9517570 page(s): 358; note: suggest type location may be Canada but references New Zealand station 167A, although McIntosh does not mention a station [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 Salazar Vallejo, Sergio I. (2017). Revision of Brada Stimpson, 1853, and Bradabyssa Hartman, 1967 (Annelida, Flabelligeridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4343(1): 1-98., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4343.1.1 note: Incorrectly states Brada whiteavesii was collected in New Zealand. It is Canadian. [details] Available for editors [request]additional source Whiteaves, Joseph Frederick. (1901). Catalogue of the marine Invertebrata of eastern Canada. <em>Report of the Geological Survey Canada.</em> 772: 1-272.(Copepods 216-217, Polychaeta 68-88)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12912999 note: Whiteaves has several mentions of McIntosh (as M'Intosh) identifying Whiteaves' Canadian dredging polychaetes, e.g. p.78 where Whiteaves gives a reference to a mention in the Challenger report volume ... Whiteaves has several mentions of McIntosh (as M'Intosh) identifying Whiteaves' Canadian dredging polychaetes, e.g. p.78 where Whiteaves gives a reference to a mention in the Challenger report volume 12.
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unknown type BMNH 1885.12.1.264, geounit British Columbia [details]
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Editor's comment Corrected the spelling to 'whiteavesii', corrected the type locality to NOT the New Zealand Queen Charlotte Sound. The original McIntosh text makes clear Brada whiteavesii was collected in North America, apparently in the Canadian Queen Charlotte Sound, but is WRONGLY RECORDED as if from New Zealand in the Hartman Catalogue (1959: 414) [G. Read, April 2017] and in the new combination into Bradabyssa made by Salazar-Vallejo (2017: 89), and in the Natural History Museum London type record. [details]Etymology named after the Canadian collector "Mr Whiteaves". Joseph Frederick Whiteaves was a Canadian biologist contemporary of McIntosh who did marine dredging, four articles of which mention the Canadian Queen Charlotte islands and sound in British Columbia. WoRMS has 45 articles by Whiteaves relating to Canadian biology, including his Canadian marine biology work. McIntosh indicates the Canadian origin of the species as follows: "Named after Mr. Whiteaves, who first brought it under my notice during his dredging expeditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence". It the specimen had been collected by the Challenger biologists McIntosh would have given a Challenger station number, and the geolocation, and the environment details as he routinely did throughout his report volume. McIntosh's Challenger report includes at least four other mentions of Whiteaves' Polychaeta material (dredged in the Gulf of St Lawrence) which he clearly had received to identify for Whiteaves.Later McIntosh (1911) names two further Canadian Polychaeta after Whiteaves (Nevaya whiteavesi and Chaetozone whiteavesi) and he published a report on polychaetes from Whiteaves' St Lawrence dredging. As an example from Whiteaves himself of their collaboration Whiteaves writes on p.78 in his 1901 "Catalogue of the marine Invertebrata of eastern Canada" that "Another species of Ephesia (apparently from the writer's [ie Whiteaves'] dredgings in the Gulf of St. Lawrence) is mentioned but not described, under the name E. Canadensis, by Professor M'Intosh, on page 362, of the twelfth volume of the Zoological Reports of H.M.S. Challenger." [details] Specimen The Natural History Museum, London, 1885.12.1.264, wrongly labelled as from New Zealand. The specimen came from Queen Charlotte Sound, Western Canadian coast. See also the Etymology note [details] Type locality Queen Charlotte Sound, CANADA, (gazetteer) N 51° 29' 58''W 128° 30' 11'', 18 m (10 fathoms). There is no Challenger Station mentioned and it appears the material came from Whiteaves' Canadian collections sent directly to McIntosh (elsewhere in the volume said to be from Gulf of St Lawrence), so it is not clear why the location McIntosh gives (without a geolocation) is the Canadian Queen Charlotte Sound which is in the Canadian Pacific. However, Whiteaves did sample there. There appear to be no other sounds of the same name. See also the Etymology note. Brada whiteavesii is not from New Zealand as is incorrectly reported elsewhere. [details] |