This is the full description by Stimpson: "Small, rather slender, largest anteriorly, flattened posteriorly. Head ... [details]
Original description by Stimpson (1856: 392-393): "Large, of an uniform dark sepia color above, paler below and ... [details]
SE Atlantic Ocean: False Bay, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Known only from the type locality. [details]
SE Atlantic Ocean: Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). [details]
Due to the short unillustrated description of the species, the lack of information concerning the paragnath ... [details]
No records apart from the original description. It seems likely that the type of Nereis mendax is lost as it is not ... [details]
Not stated, unknown. The specific epithet mendax is a Latin adjective meaning 'deceptive', 'lying' or 'false', and ... [details]
Not stated. The specific epithet operta is a Latin participle meaning 'covered', 'enveloped' or 'closed', and could ... [details]
"It inhabits a tube. Common in the circumlittoral zone" (Stimpson, 1856: 392). [details]
"Found among rocks at low-water mark" (Stimpson, 1856: 393). [details]
Day (1967: 293) has a suggested (with a ?) synonymy for Nereis mendax to Pseudonereis variegata (Grube, 1857), a ... [details]
False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. A general geolocation for False Bay is 34.22 S, 18.64 E [details]
Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, SE Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer estimate -34.19°, 18.43°). [details]
Probably lost during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 (see Smithsonian archive note). [details]