WoRMS name details
original description
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 90; note: Nomen nudum. Perhaps a reference to Syllis phosphorescens, a name used by Robert Garner [details]
additional source
Garner, Robert. (1867). Holiday excursions of a naturalist, forming a guide-book to the natural history of the inland and littoral. <em>[book].</em> 345 pp. London, Hardwicke., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.101528 page(s): 46; note: Garner mentions a number of polychaetes, including "a minute Annelide, Syllis phosphorescens, produced the phosphorescent spots of a yellowish green tint which bespangled the nets of the fishermen whe... Garner mentions a number of polychaetes, including "a minute Annelide, Syllis phosphorescens, produced the phosphorescent spots of a yellowish green tint which bespangled the nets of the fishermen when drawn up at night.
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additional source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 268; note: listing as Nereis phosphorescens Garner in Quatrefages [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Nereis phosphorescens appears to be a name invented by Quatrefages for "Syllis phosphorescens" a name later mentioned by Robert Garner in his "Holiday excursions of a naturalist, forming a guide-book to the natural history of the inland and littoral". Quatrefages gives no description but mentions the name of Garner, but the known mention of Syllis phosphorescens in Garner is in 1867, subsequent to Quatrefages' monograph. Possibly Garner had an earlier work mentioning the name that Quatrefages had extracted the name from. [details]
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