WoRMS name details
original description
(of Serpula reversa Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 page(s): 508 [details]
additional source
Brown T. (1844). <i>Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the description and localities of all the species, marine, land, and fresh water</i>. Ed. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. <em>Drawn and Coloured from Nature. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10921172 page(s): 124 [details]
new combination reference
Thorpe C. (1844). <i>British marine conchology; Being a descriptive catalogue, arranged according to the Lamarckian system, of the salt water shells of Great Britain</i>. London: Edward Lumley. l + 267 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11639230 page(s): 12 [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Indeterminable as original combination is indeterminable (no figures) [details]
Taxonomy Although Serpula reversa often has been attributed to the genus Spirorbis, Montagu clearly refers to a variable spiralised tube, while Brown's figure (1844 pl.54 fig.52) shows a slightly irregular spiral, not typical for spirorbids. Johnston (1865: 271) mentions Eupomatus pectinatus as possible synonym, indicative of the attribution to Hydroides norvegicus by McIntosh (1923). [details]
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