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Polychaeta name details

Nephthys brachycephala Moore, 1903

337185  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337185)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination, misspelled genus)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Moore, J.P. (1903). Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 55: 401-490, plates XXIII-XXVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26315239
page(s): 431-432; note: no figures [details] 
Note Pacific Ocean, off Sagami Bay, Japan  
Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, off Sagami Bay, Japan [details]
Taxonomy Corrected spelling  
Taxonomy Corrected spelling [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nephthys brachycephala Moore, 1903. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337185 on 2026-05-17
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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original description Moore, J.P. (1903). Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 55: 401-490, plates XXIII-XXVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26315239
page(s): 431-432; note: no figures [details] 

additional source Izuka, Akira. (1912). The errantiate Polychaeta of Japan. <em>Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo.</em> 30(2): 1-262, plates I-XXIV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39205921
page(s): 217-218 [details] 

source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy Corrected spelling [details]

Type locality Pacific Ocean, off Sagami Bay, Japan [details]