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Nereis longissima Johnston, 1840 
AphiaID: 146928

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Nereis (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (basionym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Eunereis longissima Johnston, 1840
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Eunereis Malmgren, 1865
Parent Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Johnston, George 1840. Miscellanea Zoologica. Contributions towards a history of Irish Annelids (1). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 1, 5: 168-179,9 figures. [details]

basis of record: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

source of synonymy: Malmgren, A. J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 22(1): 51-110. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
North Sea [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde (not certain[details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, Ireland [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146928
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-02-24 10:36:17Z  created  Claus, Simon
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Nereis longissima Johnston, 1840. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146928 on 2013-05-23
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