About | Search taxa | Taxon tree | Search literature | Specimens | Distribution | Checklist | Stats | Log in

Polychaeta taxon details

Nereis onychophora Horst, 1918

329711  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329711)

accepted
Species
Nereis (Lycoris) onychophora Horst, 1918 · unaccepted (superseded recombination with...)  
superseded recombination with disused subgenus
Nereis caenocirrus Chamberlin, 1919 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Horst, Rutger. (1918). On a species of <i>Lycastis</i> and three aberrant forms of Nereidae from the Dutch East Indies. <em>Zoologische Mededeelingen (Leiden).</em> 4(15): 246-250., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/319388
page(s): 248-249 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Note SE Asia, Indonesia  
Type locality SE Asia, Indonesia [details]
Etymology Not stated by the author. The specific epithet onychophora is derived from the Ancient Greek and means "bearing or having...  
Etymology Not stated by the author. The specific epithet onychophora is derived from the Ancient Greek and means "bearing or having claws" (onycho = 'claws' or 'nails'; phora = 'bearing'), referring clearly to the shape of the notopodial chaetae in the atokous anterior region of the holotype: "I met with a male Heteronereis, that is characterized by having in the anterior (agamous) body-region, the notopodial fascicle represented by a single, stout, yellow bristle, with a dark brown, hook-shaped apex" (Horst, 1918: 248). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis onychophora Horst, 1918. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329711 on 2024-04-23
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed

original description Horst, Rutger. (1918). On a species of <i>Lycastis</i> and three aberrant forms of Nereidae from the Dutch East Indies. <em>Zoologische Mededeelingen (Leiden).</em> 4(15): 246-250., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/319388
page(s): 248-249 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Nereis caenocirrus Chamberlin, 1919) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 209-212, plate 33 figs. 7-8, plate 34 figs. 1-6, plate 35 figs. 1-2 [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated by the author. The specific epithet onychophora is derived from the Ancient Greek and means "bearing or having claws" (onycho = 'claws' or 'nails'; phora = 'bearing'), referring clearly to the shape of the notopodial chaetae in the atokous anterior region of the holotype: "I met with a male Heteronereis, that is characterized by having in the anterior (agamous) body-region, the notopodial fascicle represented by a single, stout, yellow bristle, with a dark brown, hook-shaped apex" (Horst, 1918: 248). [details]

From other sources
Type locality SE Asia, Indonesia [details]