WoRMS name details
NomenclatureTaxonomysource 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 [request]
Otheradditional source
Ehlers, E. (1875). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Verticalverbreitung der Borstenwürmer im Meere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 25: 1-102, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45143254 page(s): 38-40, plate III figs. 3-4 [details]
additional source
McIntosh, W. C. (1900). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. XX. 1. On the Reproduction and Development of Pholoe minuta, O. Fabr. 2. On the British Nephthydidae. 3. On Nephthys (Aglaophanus)[sic] inermis, Ehlers, from the 'Porcupine'. 4. On the Nephthydidae of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series</i>. Series 7. vol. 5(27):254-268, pl.7,8. page(s): 261 [details]
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Depth range 137 m (75 fathoms). [details]
Distribution NE Atlantic Ocean: near Belfast (Northern Ireland). [details]
Etymology Species named after George Johnston (b. Simprin, Berwickshire, Scotland, 20 July 1797 – d. Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, 30 July 1855), a Scottish physician and naturalist who, according to Ehlers (1874: 294), would have identified the same species previously as "N. longisetosae" [sic]: "Verisimiliter eadem species, quae a cel. Johnston ('Catalogue of the British non-parasitical Worms,' p. 172) nomine N. longisetosae descript est". [details]
Habitat Type of sediment not stated, at shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Near Belfast, Northern Ireland, NE Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer estimate 54.7°, -5.7°), 137 m. [details]Unreviewed
Taxonomy Corrected spelling [details]
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