WoRMS name details

Nephthys brachycephala Moore, 1903

337185  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337185)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Phyllodocida incertae sedis (Suborder)
  8. Nephtyidae (Family)
  9. Nephthys (Genus)
  10. Nephthys brachycephala (Species)
 unaccepted (superseded original combination, misspelled genus)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Moore, J.P. (1903). Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 55: 401-490, plates XXIII-XXVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26315239
page(s): 431-432; note: no figures [details] 
Note Pacific Ocean, off Sagami Bay, Japan  
Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, off Sagami Bay, Japan [details]
Taxonomy Corrected spelling  
Taxonomy Corrected spelling [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nephthys brachycephala Moore, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337185 on 2025-05-28
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2023-02-21 15:33:08Z
changed
Gil, João

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Nomenclature

original description Moore, J.P. (1903). Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 55: 401-490, plates XXIII-XXVII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26315239
page(s): 431-432; note: no figures [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy 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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy Corrected spelling [details]

Type locality Pacific Ocean, off Sagami Bay, Japan [details]

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