WoRMS name details
Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973
331044 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331044)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 131, fig. 18a-f [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 131, fig. 18a-f [details] Available for editors
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Note Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pomatoceros americanus Day, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331044 on 2025-08-22
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 131, fig. 18a-f [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 131, fig. 18a-f [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Marska, G. A. 2004. J.H. Day's type specimens of Polychaeta (Annelida) in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 112(1): 17-38.
page(s): 36 [details]
page(s): 36 [details]
Other
additional source
Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment see note under Pomatoceros caeruleus, as far as from temperate American Atlantic, and under Pomatoceros caerulescens. [details]Type specimen holotype USNM 43141, 100 paratypes 43132 [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, North Carolina [details]
