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Polychaeta name details

Eupomatus similis Treadwell, 1929

327904  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:327904)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Treadwell, Aaron L. 1929. New species of polychaetous annelids in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History from Porto Rico, Florida, Lower California,and British Somaliland. American Museum Novitates, 392: 1-13., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3789 [details]   
Note Unspecified “Lower California” (Baja...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Unspecified “Lower California” (Baja California) location, unknown if Pacific or Gulf of California coasts, Mexico.  [details]
Etymology Not stated, but an instance of the Latin adjective similis ‘similar to’. Later in the same work Treadwell (1929: 12)...  
Etymology Not stated, but an instance of the Latin adjective similis ‘similar to’. Later in the same work Treadwell (1929: 12) considered his H. californicus (now H. crucigera) as similar to his E. similis, which isn’t compared to any taxon, so a logical application of the names would have been in reverse! [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Eupomatus similis Treadwell, 1929. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327904 on 2024-04-23
Date
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2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2009-01-20 20:00:53Z
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original description Treadwell, Aaron L. 1929. New species of polychaetous annelids in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History from Porto Rico, Florida, Lower California,and British Somaliland. American Museum Novitates, 392: 1-13., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3789 [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but an instance of the Latin adjective similis ‘similar to’. Later in the same work Treadwell (1929: 12) considered his H. californicus (now H. crucigera) as similar to his E. similis, which isn’t compared to any taxon, so a logical application of the names would have been in reverse! [details]

Type locality Unspecified “Lower California” (Baja California) location, unknown if Pacific or Gulf of California coasts, Mexico.  [details]

From other sources
Specimen American Museum of Natural History, New York [details]