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Polychaeta name details

Nereis scolopendroides Delle Chiaje, 1827

337258 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337258)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Nereidiformia (Suborder)
  8. Nereididae (Family)
  9. Nereidinae (Subfamily)
  10. Nereis (Genus)
  11. Nereis scolopendroides (Species)
 unaccepted
Nephtys hombergii Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Species
Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Delle Chiaje, Stefano 1825 [-1827]. [POLYCHAETA context. Vol.2] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli: Volume 2. 185-444. Stamperia delle Societa Tipografica, Napoli., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40280#7
page(s): 401, 424, plate 28, figure 8; note: Naples. Figure shows an unusual headstructure without antennae or cirri, but with possibly a projecting proboscis. Indeterminable to family but not Nereididae. [details] 
Type locality contained in Naples Gulf  
type locality contained in Naples Gulf [details]
, Note Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples  
Type locality Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis scolopendroides Delle Chiaje, 1827. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337258 on 2026-10-06
Date
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2023-10-13 02:14:35Z
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Read, Geoffrey

original description Delle Chiaje, Stefano 1825 [-1827]. [POLYCHAETA context. Vol.2] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli: Volume 2. 185-444. Stamperia delle Societa Tipografica, Napoli., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40280#7
page(s): 401, 424, plate 28, figure 8; note: Naples. Figure shows an unusual headstructure without antennae or cirri, but with possibly a projecting proboscis. Indeterminable to family but not Nereididae. [details] 

additional source 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.
page(s): 270; note: checklist listing as questionably Nephtyidae [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

source of synonymy McIntosh, W. C. (1908). A monograph of British Annelids. <em>Ray Society of London, II. Part I. Polychaeta. Nephthydidae to Syllidae.</em> 2: 1-232., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/monographBritis2McInA
page(s): 18; note: included in a lengthy synonymy for Nephthys hombergii [details] OpenAccess publication

status source Delle Chiaje, S. (1841-1844). Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822-1830. <em>Batteli & Co., Naples.</em> Parts 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10599185
page(s): 199, figure 24; note: transfer to Nephtys [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Classification Delle Chiaje (1841: vol. 3, 99) recombined his Nereis scolopendroides to Nephtys (Nephtyidae), Later McIntosh (1908: 18), and possibly others earlier, placed Nereis scolopendroides delle Chiaje in the synonymy of Nephthys hombergii. [details]

Unreviewed
Type locality Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples [details]
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