Boys, W.; Walker, G. (1784). Testacea minuta rariora, nuperrime detecta in arena littoris Sandvicensis / A collection of the minute and rare shells, lately discovered in the sand of the sea shore near Sandwich / by William Boys ... ; considerably augmented, and all their figures accurately drawn, as magnified with the microscopy, by Geo. Walker, bookseller, at Faversham. [Booklet]. 25 pp, published by George Walker.

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10.5962/bhl.title.143671 [view]

Boys, W.; Walker, G.

1784

25 pp, published by George Walker

Publication

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). Serpula names (actually Foraminifera, except for one probable spirorbin) and also Mollusca names (Nautilus), but they are 'polyverbal' not binominal, and the work was rejected for nomenclature by ICZN Opinion 558 in 1959. Names are repeated, but in modified form, in Adams (1798) and have been treated as validly published there.

The rejection Opinion is: ICZN. (1959): Opinion 558. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of the work entitled "Testacea minuta rariora" by William Boys as augmented by George Walker published in 1784. Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, 20, 277-282.
The Serpula names are:
SERPULA Subovalis intorta umbilico pervio / The hollow oval Wormshell
SERPULA Bicornis ventricosa / The bellied semilunar Wormshell
SERPULA Bicornis umbilico perforato / The semilunar perforated Wormshell
SERPULA Subrotunda dorso elevato / The roundish Wormshell with an elevated back
SERPULA Tenuis ovalis laevis / The thin smooth egg-shaped Wormshell
SERPULA (Lagena) striata fulcata rotunda / The round striated and furrowed Flask Wormshell
SERPULA (Lagena) marginata / The bordered Flask Wormshell
SERPULA (Lagena) laevis globosa / The smooth round Flask Wormshell
SERPULA (Lagena) laevis ovalis / The smooth oval Flask Wormshell
SERPULA (Retorta) rotunda marginata cervice curvatim exerto / The marginated Retort Wormshell
SERPULA Recta anfractibus tribus contiguis regulariter involutis / The strait horn Wormshell with three close intorted spires at the tip
SERPULA Recta umbilico pervio anfractu apicis unico involuto / The single spired strait horn Wormshell with a pervious umbilicus.
SERPULA Quatuor anfractibus umbilicata apertura rotunda / The four spired round mouth umbilicated Wormshell
SERPULA Apertura rotunda anfractibus duobus umbilicata / The two-spired umbilicated round mouth Wormshell

Systematics, Taxonomy

Annelida
Foraminifera

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