World Polychaeta Database - Leodice viridis (Gray in Stair, 1847)

Polychaeta name details

Leodice viridis (Gray in Stair, 1847)

AphiaID

335098 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:335098)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)

Accepted name

Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847

Rank

Species

Parent

Leodice Lamarck, 1818

Original name

Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847

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Subspecies Leodice viridis vernalis Treadwell, 1922 accepted as Palola vernalis (Treadwell, 1922) (superseded original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847) Stair, John B. (1847). An account of Palolo, a sea worm eaten in the Navigator Islands, with a description by J.E. Gray. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 17-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862801
page(s): 17-18 [no figures] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Leodice viridis (Gray in Stair, 1847). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=335098 on 2026-08-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-17 10:44:16Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2013-09-23 20:43:39Z

changed

Zanol, Joana

2025-07-01 17:12:33Z

changed

Gil, João

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original description (of Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847) Stair, John B. (1847). An account of Palolo, a sea worm eaten in the Navigator Islands, with a description by J.E. Gray. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 17-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862801
page(s): 17-18 [no figures] [details]

basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1942). Polychaetous annelids from Lower California and the Philippine Islands in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum Novitates. 1172: 1-5., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4742
page(s): 1, fig. 1 [details] Available for editors

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new combination reference Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1922). Leodicidae from Fiji and Samoa. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 312: 127-170, plates 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5402751
page(s): 131, 133, text-figs. 1-2, plate 1 figs. 1-7; note: recombined from Palola [details]

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