WoRMS name details
original description
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux; Présentant leurs caractères essentiels et leur distribution, d'apres la considération de leurs rapports naturels et de leur organisation, et suivant l'arrangement établi dans les galeries du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, parmi leurs dépouilles conservées; Précédé du discours d'ouverture du Cours de Zoologie, donné dans le Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle l'an 8 de la République. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris: viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 page(s): 324 [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): 264; note: checklist listing, tagged as 'France indeterminable' [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Baster, J. (1759-1765). Opuscula subseciva. Observationes miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis quibusdam marinis, eorumque ovariis et seminibus continentia. <em>[book series].</em> volume 1:1-148, pls. 1-16 [ 3 parts, 1759, 1760, 1761]; vol. 2:1-150, pls. 1-13. [3 parts 1762, 1765, 1765]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/37988 page(s): 134 (volume 2) and plate 12, figure 2.; note: Baster is the source of Lamarck's Terebella biseta supposed previous names Nereis minima and Nereis seticornis. Lamarck includes these names as synonyms but he invented Nereis minima himself. [details]
From editor or global species database
Status Lamarck 1801 attributed Nereis minima to Baster ~1765, and he presents it not as a valid name but as a junior synonym of his own new name Terebella biseta along with Nereis seticornis L. However, Baster did not use a Linnaean binominal. He did not create Nereis minima, instead he used a 4 word descriptive Nereidis minimam tentaculis longissimis. The species in Baster is clearly a spionid with long palps (shown in a figure), probably a Polydora-group species as Baster reports the worm is "found in stones, oysters, and other shell fish" Also in the Hartman catalogue p.264 she lists Nereis minima Lamarck 1801 as indeterminable, but, while that is correct, the essential problems are that Lamarck's Nereis name is used only in synonymy to a Terebella name and the entity it represents was a spionid, not a nereidid. In summary Nereis minima is a nomen dubium unnecessary new name, not valid, was never valid. [details]
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