Polychaeta name details
original description
(of Nais quadricuspida O. Fabricius, 1780) Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 page(s): 315-316 [details] 
source of synonymy
Eisig, Hugo. (1914). Zur Systematik, Anatomie und Morphologie der Ariciiden nebst Beiträgen zur generellen Systematik. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 21(6): 153-600, plates 10-27., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47117118 [details]
new combination reference
Leuckart, R. (1849). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Island. Erster Beitrag (Würmer). <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 15(1): 149-208, plate 3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13705776 page(s): 198-200, plate III fig. 11; note: recombined from Nais into Aricia (Scoloplos) [details] 
Unreviewed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Iceland [details]
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