Anatomus Montfort, 1810 
AphiaID: 325094

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Polychaeta incertae sedis (Subclass)

Status		nomen dubium (Described as Mollusca. Indeterminable whether Mollusca or Polychaeta)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Typetaxon		Anatomus indicus Montfort, 1810 (type by original designation)
Parent		Polychaeta incertae sedis
Sources		original description: Montfort P. [Denys de] (1810) Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles [...]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16. Paris: Schoelle. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11065017 page(s): 279 [details] basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Adams, A. (1862) On some new species of Scissurellidae from the Seas of China and Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 10, 346–348., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15602946 [details] [full text] source of synonymy: Mörch, O. A. L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, København, Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]. , available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft page(s): 428 [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Anatomus indicus Montfort, 1810 (nomen dubium)
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Notes		Nomenclature: Half a century subsequent to Montfort's publication Adams (1862) erected six new species in Mollusca under "Anatomus H. & A. Adams", stating that "By common consent, the somewhat mythical Anatomus of Denys de Montfort has been ignored. His name Anatomus, however, a very significant and good one, may still be used for those species of Scissurella in which the margin of the outer lip is fissured. Woodward has unnecessarily suggested the alteration Anatoma, for the sake, possibly, of the feminine termination." Thus Adams was not creating taxa under Anatomus Montfort, and the original names of the species of "Anatomus" of Adams belong in Mollusca, not Polychaeta. See Anatomus A. Adams in Polychaeta incertae sedis. [details] Nomenclature: Erected in Mollusca for Anatomus indicus Montfort. It is difficult to ascertain what Montfort was describing, but it is not obviously a polychaete (Montfort in translation "in all respects it can not be counted among the annelid worms") Nevertheless this genus name appears to first enter Polychaeta nomenclature as a synonym of genus Spirorbis Daudin, fide Mörch (1863:428). This placement was reported, but tagged questionable by Hartman (1959). Recently ten Hove & Kupriyanova (2009) placed the genus as invalid, at least in Polychaeta, and referred it to Scissurellidae. However, it is regarded as belonging in spirorbins again by Geiger (2012). Polychaeta Nomen dubium.  [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325094
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-03-05 14:39:51Z   created   Fauchald, Kristian 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian 2009-01-20 10:09:03Z   changed   ten Hove, Harry 2009-04-13 21:27:48Z   changed   Gofas, Serge 2013-01-19 13:52:06Z   changed   ten Hove, Harry 2013-05-13 05:29:58Z   changed   Read, Geoffrey 2013-05-16 21:52:35Z   changed   Read, Geoffrey
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		Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Anatomus Montfort, 1810. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325094 on 2013-06-19