Polychaeta name details
original description
(of Aphrodita flava Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P.S. (1766) Miscellanea zoologica. Quibus novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describuntur et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Petrum van Cleef. Hagí Comitum., xii + 224 pp.;14 pls., available online at https://archive.org/details/pspallasmedicina00pall page(s): 97, plate 8, figures 7-11; note: Indian Ocean (2 locations) [details]
basis of record
Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). <i>Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers</i>, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, <i>Zootaxa</i>, 166: 37; <i>Zootaxa</i>, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 page(s): 45; note: superfluous replacement name for Aphrodita flava [details]
source of synonymy
Fauvel, P. (1917). Annélides Polychètes de L'Australie meridionale. <em>Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale.</em> 56: 159-277, plates IV-VIII., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6322379 [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Amphinome capillata does not represent a new taxon. It is a superfluous replacement name for Aphrodita flava of which it is an objective synonym. The combination which would have been appropriate at the time of "Amphinome flava" may not have an historic usage as this combination does not appear in a BHL search. [details]
Type locality Coast of Bengal fide Bruguière: "Ce ver vit dans l'ocean asatique; des deux que M. Pallas a vus, l'un , qui est celui dont nous donnons ici la descriprion d'après lui , avoir été pris sur la côte de Bengale , & le second a voit été envoyé de l'île d'Amboine. Thus the type locality is coast of Bengal, not Amboina, Indonesia, as in Hartman Catalogue (p.128) [details]
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