Polychaeta taxon details
Pherusa scutigera (Ehlers, 1887)
334492 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334492)
accepted
Species
Stylarioides scutiger Ehlers, 1887 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Stylarioides scutiger 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): 165-168, plate 42 figs. 1-5 [details]
page(s): 165-168, plate 42 figs. 1-5 [details]
Type locality contained in Caribbean Sea
type locality contained in Caribbean Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pherusa scutigera (Ehlers, 1887). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334492 on 2025-08-31
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(of Stylarioides scutiger 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): 165-168, plate 42 figs. 1-5 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207 [details]
page(s): 165-168, plate 42 figs. 1-5 [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
