WoRMS name details
Nereis rosea Fabricius, 1780
340158 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340158)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 [details] 
Type locality contained in Greenlandic part of the Arctic Ocean
, Note Arctic Ocean, Greenland
type locality contained in Greenlandic part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Greenland [details]
Taxonomy Nereis rosea was made a synonym of Nereimyra aphroditoides by Pleijel, Rouse & Nygren (2012), although both were described...
Taxonomy Nereis rosea was made a synonym of Nereimyra aphroditoides by Pleijel, Rouse & Nygren (2012), although both were described (in Nereis) by Fabricius in the same work. There were no types of either taxon, but Pleijel et al (2012) created a neotype for N. aphroditoides [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis rosea Fabricius, 1780. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340158 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Støp-Bowitz, Carl 1948. Polychaeta from the "Michael Sars" North Atlantic deep-sea expedition 1910. Report on the Scientific Results of the Michael Sars North Atlantic Deep-Sea Expedition, 5(8): 1-91., available online at http://www.annelida.net/docs/scans.html
note: to synonymy under Nereimyra punctata (Müller, 1788) [details]
source of synonymy Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W; Nygren, Arne (2012). A revision of Nereimyra (Psamathini, Hesionidae, Aciculata, Annelida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164(1): 36-51., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00756.x
page(s): 45; note: to synonymy under the name Nereimyra aphroditoides, although both names were described (as Nereis species) by Fabricius in the same work [details]
note: to synonymy under Nereimyra punctata (Müller, 1788) [details]
source of synonymy Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W; Nygren, Arne (2012). A revision of Nereimyra (Psamathini, Hesionidae, Aciculata, Annelida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164(1): 36-51., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00756.x
page(s): 45; note: to synonymy under the name Nereimyra aphroditoides, although both names were described (as Nereis species) by Fabricius in the same work [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy Nereis rosea was made a synonym of Nereimyra aphroditoides by Pleijel, Rouse & Nygren (2012), although both were described (in Nereis) by Fabricius in the same work. There were no types of either taxon, but Pleijel et al (2012) created a neotype for N. aphroditoides [details]Unreviewed
Type locality Arctic Ocean, Greenland [details]
