WoRMS name details
Polynoe polytricha Schmarda, 1861
339826 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339826)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm [details] 
Note Caribbean Sea (Florida Keys and south coast...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Caribbean Sea (Florida Keys and south coast Jamaica). It appears Schmarda had only one specimen, so his reference to two localities is confusing. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polynoe polytricha Schmarda, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339826 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Augener, Hermann. (1925). Über westindische und einige andere Polychaeten-Typen von Grube (Oersted), Krøyer, Mörch und Schmarda. <em>Publikationer fra Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, København.</em> 39: 1-47. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 49-50, plate 10 figs. 9-10, plate 11 fig. 1 [details]
page(s): 49-50, plate 10 figs. 9-10, plate 11 fig. 1 [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Salazar-Silva (2010) does not include Polynoe polytricha Schmarda, 1861 from Jamaica and the Florida Keys in the synonymy of Harmothoe crucis (only including the record under P. polytricha by Ehlers, 1887), apparently on the basis the macrotubercles of Schmarda's figure are different. However, Schmarda's figure is small, and not detailed enough to be sure of this. [details]Type locality Caribbean Sea (Florida Keys and south coast Jamaica). It appears Schmarda had only one specimen, so his reference to two localities is confusing. [details]
