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Polychaeta name details

Polydora littorea Verrill, 1881

338519 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338519)

 unaccepted (subjective synonym, first published as a nomen nudum)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Verrill, A. E. (1881). Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part 2. Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc. collected by the United States Fish Commission. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 22: 356-405., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/12375
page(s): 301; note: listing only, thus nomen nudum [details] OpenAccess publication
Note Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts  
Unreviewed
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed  
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Polydora littorea Verrill, 1881. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338519 on 2026-07-19
Date
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by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2011-03-09 07:52:42Z
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2016-10-16 23:04:30Z
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original description Verrill, A. E. (1881). Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Part 2. Mollusca, with notes on Annelida, Echinodermata, etc. collected by the United States Fish Commission. <em>Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.</em> 22: 356-405., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/12375
page(s): 301; note: listing only, thus nomen nudum [details] OpenAccess publication

source of synonymy Söderström, Adolf. (1920). Studien über die Polychätenfamilie Spionidae. <em>[published thesis].</em> Uppsala University, printed Almquist and Wicksells, 286 pp. [details] 

source of synonymy Blake, J. A. (1971). Revision of the genus <i>Polydora</i> from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 75: 1-32., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.75 [details] 

redescription Hartman, O. 1944. New England Annelida. Part 2. Including the unpublished plates by Verrill with reconstructed captions. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 82(7): 331-343., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1052
page(s): 336, 340, pl. 18; note: Verrill's figure [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts [details]