WoRMS name details

Nothria opalina Verrill, 1873

339436  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339436)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Verrill, A.E. 1873. Results of recent dredging expeditions on the coast of New England. American Journal of Science and Arts, Ser. 3, 5: 98-106. [details] 
Type locality contained in Georges Bank  
type locality contained in Georges Bank [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, near St.George's Bank, New England  
Unreviewed
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, near St.George's Bank, New England [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nothria opalina Verrill, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339436 on 2025-10-19
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description Verrill, A.E. 1873. Results of recent dredging expeditions on the coast of New England. American Journal of Science and Arts, Ser. 3, 5: 98-106. [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Hobson, Katharine D. 1971. Some polychaetes of the superfamily Eunicea from the north Pacific and north Atlantic Oceans. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83(47): 527-544., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34573181 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality Atlantic Ocean, near St.George's Bank, New England [details]