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Name

Benham, William B. (1927). Polychaeta [Terra Nova]. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology. 7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6.

SourceID

49136

Authors

Benham, William B.

Year

1927

Title

Polychaeta [Terra Nova]

Journal

British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition Natural History Reports, Zoology

Suffix

7(2): 47-182, plates 1-6

Type

Publication

Link

http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49465872

Note

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)

Abstract

Summary: The number of species in the present collection is 88; of these 54 species occur in the Ross Sea and McMurdo Sound, 33 in the waters round New Zealand (one of which, Phyllodoce madeirensis, is common to both areas), and 3 on the shore of South Trinidad in the Atlantic. There remain to be examined the representatives of the two families Tomopteridae and Alciopidae; of these pelagic worms a large number were collected, especially of the former. They are chiefly from the neighbourhood of Nelson, only a few individual Alciopids having been included in the Antarctic gatherings. I hope to give an account of these pelagic forms in a separate Report. It will be convenient to consider the Antarctic and the New Zealand species separately; in the following list the species from these two areas are distinguished by the letters A. and N.Z. respectively.

Geographical terms

Antarctic
New Zealand

Bibliographical terms

Expeditions (results series)
Systematics, Taxonomy

Taxonomic terms

Annelida
Polychaeta

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Chitinopomoides Benham, 1927 (original description)
Chitinopomoides wilsoni Benham, 1927 (original description)
Exogone anomalochaeta Benham, 1921 (additional source)
Nemidia regalis Benham, 1927 accepted as Polynoe regalis (Benham, 1927) (original description)
Pista corrientis McIntosh, 1885 (source of synonymy)
Pista godfroyi (Gravier, 1911) (additional source)
Pista mirabilis McIntosh, 1885 (additional source)
Trypanosyllis gigantea (McIntosh, 1885) accepted as Trypanedenta gigantea (McIntosh, 1885) (additional source)
Zopyrus maoricus Benham, 1927 accepted as Serpula maorica (Benham, 1927) (original description)

Classification

for Aotearia Benham, 1927

Benham erected Aotearia in his subfamily nov, Aotearinae, within Eunicidae, in which he also had subfamily ... [details]

Description

for Pomatoceros terraenovae Benham, 1927

The original description begins as follows: "Operculum with thin convex calcareous plate on the end of a winged ... [details]

Editor's comment

for Sabella argus

There is no such name as "Sabella argus", and the few usages of it are mistakes by authors. It originated in a ... [details]

Etymology

for Aotearia Benham, 1927

Benham footnote "'Aotea' White cloud; the original name bestowed on New Zealand by the first Maori arrivals from ... [details]

Etymology

for Pomatoceros terraenovae Benham, 1927

Not stated, but evidently named by Benham after the expedition vessel, Terra Nova, of Scott's Antarctic expedition, 1910 [details]

Spelling

for Aotearia Benham, 1927

Spelling in WoRMS corrected [May 2015] from "Aeotearia" [data entry error] to Aotearia. [details]

Spelling

for Pomatoceros terraenovae Benham, 1927

Benham (1927) presented the name as Pomatoceros terrae novae, but the two-word species-group name "terrae novae" ... [details]

Status

for Aotearia Benham, 1927

Erected for A. sulcaticeps, this genus was said by Orensanz (1990) to be a senior synonym of Lumbrineriopsis ... [details]

Taxonomy

for Eulalia (Pterocirrus) hunteri Benham, 1921

Moved to different genus. [details]

Type locality

for Aotearia sulcaticeps Benham, 1927

7 miles off Cape Maria Van Diemen, estimated as -34.4733, 172.4487 [details]

Type locality

for Pomatoceros terraenovae Benham, 1927

Recorded as "South Trinidad", nowadays Trindade, in the tropical Atlantic 20 deg S off Brazil, gazetteer ... [details]

Type locality

for Travisia olens novaezealandiae Benham, 1927

New Zealand unspecified. Benham (1927) had 32 specimens, one from Terra Nova Expedition, northern New Zealand ... [details]

Type locality

for Vermilia sphaeropomatus Benham, 1927

Northern North Island, New Zealand, stations 90 and 96, off 3 Kings Islands and North Cape respectively [details]