WoRMS taxon details
Petta pellucida (Ehlers, 1887)
334465 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334465)
accepted
Species
Pectinaria (Petta) pellucida Ehlers, 1887 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pectinaria (Petta) pellucida Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 194-199, plate 44, Fig.l-9.; note: 2 specimens [details]
page(s): 194-199, plate 44, Fig.l-9.; note: 2 specimens [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Petta pellucida (Ehlers, 1887). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334465 on 2025-11-25
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pectinaria (Petta) pellucida Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 194-199, plate 44, Fig.l-9.; note: 2 specimens [details]
page(s): 194-199, plate 44, Fig.l-9.; note: 2 specimens [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Zhang, Jinghuai; Hutchings, Pat; Kupriyanova, Elena. (2019). A revision of the genus <em>Petta</em> Malmgren, 1866 (Annelida: Pectinariidae), with two new species from deep waters of southeastern Australia, and comments on phylogeny of the family. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4614(2): 303-330., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4614.2.3
page(s): 312, figure 6; note: redescription from syntype, which has dried. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 312, figure 6; note: redescription from syntype, which has dried. [details] Available for editors
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Syntype (of Pectinaria (Petta) pellucida Ehlers, 1887) MCZ ANNc-2559, geounit Florida Strait [details]
