WoRMS name details
Malacoceros longirostris Quatrefages, 1843
338472 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338472)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Quatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346
page(s): 13-14, plate 3 figs. 7-8 [details]
page(s): 13-14, plate 3 figs. 7-8 [details]
Type locality contained in French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part]
, Note Atlantic ocean, France
type locality contained in French Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details]
Type locality Atlantic ocean, France [details]
Taxonomy Not a Malacoceros. Often regarded as a synonym of Scolelepis squamata, possibly correctly (e.g. Pettibone, 1963)....
Taxonomy Not a Malacoceros. Often regarded as a synonym of Scolelepis squamata, possibly correctly (e.g. Pettibone, 1963). Alternatively, combined in Nerine, as a new name authored by Saint-Joseph which is a homonym replaced by Scolelepis cantabra Rioja. The latter belief and action is incorrect - see entry for Nerine longirostris. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Malacoceros longirostris Quatrefages, 1843. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338472 on 2024-04-23
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original description
Quatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346
page(s): 13-14, plate 3 figs. 7-8 [details]
additional source Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 36(129): 1-183., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506046 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Revision of some genera of polychaete worms of the family Spionidae, including the description of a new species of <i>Scolelepis</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 76: 89-104., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34604970
page(s): 92 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 13-14, plate 3 figs. 7-8 [details]
additional source Foster, Nancy Marie. (1971). Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 36(129): 1-183., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/506046 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Revision of some genera of polychaete worms of the family Spionidae, including the description of a new species of <i>Scolelepis</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 76: 89-104., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34604970
page(s): 92 [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Not a Malacoceros. Often regarded as a synonym of Scolelepis squamata, possibly correctly (e.g. Pettibone, 1963). Alternatively, combined in Nerine, as a new name authored by Saint-Joseph which is a homonym replaced by Scolelepis cantabra Rioja. The latter belief and action is incorrect - see entry for Nerine longirostris. [details]From other sources
Type locality Atlantic ocean, France [details]
