Polychaeta name details
original description
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285 page(s): 279 [details]
source of synonymy
Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358 [details]
source of synonymy
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
redescription
Blake, James A. (2009). Redescription of Capitella capitata (Fabricius) from West Greenland and designation of a neotype (Polychaeta, Capitellidae). <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 2: 55-80., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zoosymposia/content/2009/v2/index.htm [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Neotype Capitella capitata is exceedingly well known, and its original name much less so. However, any neotype created is always to replace the type specimen of the original species name, in this case Lumbricus capitatus. Blake (2009: 64) states that the neotype, (ZMUC-Pol-1967) "was selected from the excellent materials from Mârmorilik, a site located at 71°6.5′N latitude on the Affarlikassâ Fjord on the innermost part of the Uummannaq Fjord system north of Disko Bay. [details]
Type locality The neotype of Lumbricus capitatus is from Mârmorilik, a site located at 71°6.5′N latitude on the Affarlikassâ Fjord on the innermost part of the Uummannaq Fjord system north of Disko Bay, Greenland [details]
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