WoRMS name details
original description
(of Antinoe aequiseta Kinberg, 1856) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133 page(s): 385 [details]
taxonomy source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 page(s): 66; note: usage as Harmothoe aequiseta aequiseta, along with including Harmothoe africana as a subspecies of it. [details]
new combination reference
Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280 page(s): 137 [details]
status source
Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Revision of some species referred to Antinoe, Antinoella, Antinoana, Bylgides, and Harmothoe (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Harmothoinae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 545: 1-41., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5681 page(s): 2; note: Pettibone agreed with Augener's referral to Harmothoe but only as an indeterminable 'Harmothoe sp [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Pettibone agreed with Augener's (1918) referral to Harmothoe as H. aequiseta but only as an indeterminable 'Harmothoe sp'. However, as Augener created the combination, & it was later used by Day (1967), it seems best to use H. aequiseta as the name, even if regarded as indeterminable. [Repeated from Antinoe aequiseta] Pettibone (1993: 28) justified her placement of A. aequiseta as follows: "Antinoe aequiseta Kinberg, 1856, from Port Natal, South Africa. The holotype in the Swedish State Museum (NRS) now consists of a posterior end of 17 segments and is thus unsatisfactory. The original description and figures are deficient, particularly in regard to the elytra, which were evidently missing because they were not described or figured. It is considered to be an indeterminable Harmothoe sp. Based on material from "South-West" Africa, Augener (1918:137) referred the species to Harmothoe and included in its synonymy Parmenis capensis Willey (1904) from the Cape of Good Hope. Augener's specimens, deposited in the Hamburg Museum (ZMH 8730/8780), consist of fragments and appear to be a mixture of at least two species. Some of the specimens of H. aequiseta by Day (1953,1960,1967) from South Africa are described below under Harmothoe capensis (Willey), new combination, and H. discoveryae, new species" [details]
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