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Polychaeta name detailsScolecolepis cirrata (M. Sars, 1851)
338549 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338549)
unaccepted (superseded recombination)
Species
marine,
recent only
(of Nerine cirrata M. Sars, 1851) Sars M. (1851). Beretning om i Sommeren 1849 Fortagen Zoologisk Reise i Lofoten og Finmarken. <em>Nyt Magazin Naturvidenskaberne.</em> 6(2):121–211., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8152707
page(s): 207-208; note: no figures [details] 
Homonymy Not a homonym. Hartman catalogue (1959:378) wrongly transferred the name to Laonice as a name then unavailable due to...
Homonymy Not a homonym. Hartman catalogue (1959:378) wrongly transferred the name to Laonice as a name then unavailable due to secondary homonymy, an interpretation based on this Webster & Benedict usage she had recorded as if a new species. [details] Nomenclature In Hartman catalogue (1959:388) recorded as if authored by Webster & Benedict, 1884, thus a synonym, and a secondary...
Nomenclature In Hartman catalogue (1959:388) recorded as if authored by Webster & Benedict, 1884, thus a synonym, and a secondary homonym when in Laonice. This is clearly not correct. Webster & Benedict had recorded an occurrence of Nerine cirrata Sars, which they placed in Scolecolepis. See original text http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11203307 [details] Taxonomy Webster & Benedict's Massachusetts record is brief, with no description attached, just the comment "Not common". Also that...
Taxonomy Webster & Benedict's Massachusetts record is brief, with no description attached, just the comment "Not common". Also that specimens were dredged in sand from 20-30 fathoms. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Scolecolepis cirrata (M. Sars, 1851). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338549 on 2026-10-11
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(of Nerine cirrata M. Sars, 1851) Sars M. (1851). Beretning om i Sommeren 1849 Fortagen Zoologisk Reise i Lofoten og Finmarken. <em>Nyt Magazin Naturvidenskaberne.</em> 6(2):121–211., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8152707
page(s): 207-208; note: no figures [details] additional source McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426 page(s): 380-381, plate XLV figs. 5-6, plate XXIVA fig. 6; note: two unnamed varieties of the species, from London River, Kerguelen, and from off Sombrero and St. Thomas, West Indies [details] additional source Théel, H.J. (1879). Les Annélides Polychètes des mers de la Nouvelle-Zemble. <em>Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar.</em> 16(3): 1-75, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33811612 page(s): 53-54 [details] new combination reference Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 page(s): 91, plate IX fig. 54; note: recombined from Nerine [details] new combination reference Webster, Harrison Edwin; Benedict, James Everard. (1884). The Annelida Chaetopoda from Provincetown and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. <em>Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington.</em> 9(1881): 699-747, plates I-VIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15769965 page(s): 726; note: usage record of Nerine cirrata M. Sars, 1851 [details] status 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): 388; note: Wrongly records under authorship of Webster & Benedict. [details] Available for editors  [request] Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Homonymy Not a homonym. Hartman catalogue (1959:378) wrongly transferred the name to Laonice as a name then unavailable due to secondary homonymy, an interpretation based on this Webster & Benedict usage she had recorded as if a new species. [details]Nomenclature In Hartman catalogue (1959:388) recorded as if authored by Webster & Benedict, 1884, thus a synonym, and a secondary homonym when in Laonice. This is clearly not correct. Webster & Benedict had recorded an occurrence of Nerine cirrata Sars, which they placed in Scolecolepis. See original text http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11203307 [details] Taxonomy Webster & Benedict's Massachusetts record is brief, with no description attached, just the comment "Not common". Also that specimens were dredged in sand from 20-30 fathoms. [details] |