WoRMS name details
Nereis indica Kinberg, 1865
209779 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209779)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(2): 167-179., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339443
page(s): 169 [details]
page(s): 169 [details]
Holotype SMNH 470, geounit Selat Banka
, Note Selat Bangka (alternative spelling Banka), or...
Holotype SMNH 470, geounit Selat Banka [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Selat Bangka (alternative spelling Banka), or Bangka Strait, Indonesia. Kinberg gives the locality as "Pars australis Freti Bangka in fundo mariss" = deep sea southern Bangka Strait. [details]
Depth range Deep sea ("fundo maris"; Kinberg, 1865: 169).
Distribution Java Sea: southern Bangka Strait (Indonesia). Indian Ocean: Galle (Sri Lanka, Laccadive Sea); Visakhapatnam (= "Waltair")...
Etymology Kinberg named the species 'indica', which means 'of India', but this is misleading as the type locality is Bangka Strait,...
Depth range Deep sea ("fundo maris"; Kinberg, 1865: 169). [details]
Distribution Java Sea: southern Bangka Strait (Indonesia). Indian Ocean: Galle (Sri Lanka, Laccadive Sea); Visakhapatnam (= "Waltair")...
Distribution Java Sea: southern Bangka Strait (Indonesia). Indian Ocean: Galle (Sri Lanka, Laccadive Sea); Visakhapatnam (= "Waltair") beach (India, Bay of Bengal). [details]
Etymology Kinberg named the species 'indica', which means 'of India', but this is misleading as the type locality is Bangka Strait,...
Etymology Kinberg named the species 'indica', which means 'of India', but this is misleading as the type locality is Bangka Strait, Indonesia. Thus Hartman catalogue (p.261) simply wrongly but understandably reported the type locality as India [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis indica Kinberg, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209779 on 2024-04-16
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Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(2): 167-179., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339443
page(s): 169 [details]
additional source Salazar-Vallejo, S. I.; Carrera-Parra, L. F.; Muir, A. I.; De León-González, J. A.; Piotrowski, C.; Sato, M. (2014). Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3842(1): 1-68., available online at https://mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03842p068.pdf
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1932). Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-262, plates I-IX., available online at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/memoirs/012/01/index.pdf
page(s): 96 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 270-271, plate IV figs. 81-84 [details]
new combination reference Pillai, T.G. (1965). Annelida Polychaeta from the Philippines and Indonesia. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 5(2): 110-177., available online at http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/7733
page(s): 144; note: as Neanthes indica [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 14(1): 59-129.
page(s): 80; note: as Nereis (Neanthes) indica, to include the subspecies Nereis (Neanthes) indica brunnea Day, 1957 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 169 [details]
additional source Salazar-Vallejo, S. I.; Carrera-Parra, L. F.; Muir, A. I.; De León-González, J. A.; Piotrowski, C.; Sato, M. (2014). Polychaete species (Annelida) described from the Philippine and China Seas. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3842(1): 1-68., available online at https://mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03842p068.pdf
page(s): 24 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Fauvel, Pierre. (1932). Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-262, plates I-IX., available online at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/memoirs/012/01/index.pdf
page(s): 96 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 270-271, plate IV figs. 81-84 [details]
new combination reference Pillai, T.G. (1965). Annelida Polychaeta from the Philippines and Indonesia. <em>Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences).</em> 5(2): 110-177., available online at http://dl.nsf.ac.lk/handle/1/7733
page(s): 144; note: as Neanthes indica [details] Available for editors
[request] status source Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 14(1): 59-129.
page(s): 80; note: as Nereis (Neanthes) indica, to include the subspecies Nereis (Neanthes) indica brunnea Day, 1957 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SMNH 470, geounit Selat Banka [details]
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Depth range Deep sea ("fundo maris"; Kinberg, 1865: 169). [details]Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Kinberg (1865: 169): "Lobus cephalicus elongatus, segmenta 2 proxima longitudine aequans, fronte lata, postice integer; occuli magni; antennae dimidiam partem lobi cephalici parum superantes; cirri tentaculares paris 3:ii segmentum 7-8 attingentes; pedes et cirri mediocres." [details]
Distribution Java Sea: southern Bangka Strait (Indonesia). Indian Ocean: Galle (Sri Lanka, Laccadive Sea); Visakhapatnam (= "Waltair") beach (India, Bay of Bengal). [details]
Etymology Kinberg named the species 'indica', which means 'of India', but this is misleading as the type locality is Bangka Strait, Indonesia. Thus Hartman catalogue (p.261) simply wrongly but understandably reported the type locality as India [details]
Habitat Not stated, at deep water. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm (SMNH 470). [details]
Type locality Selat Bangka (alternative spelling Banka), or Bangka Strait, Indonesia. Kinberg gives the locality as "Pars australis Freti Bangka in fundo mariss" = deep sea southern Bangka Strait. [details]
