WoRMS name details
Nereis (Nereis) eucapitis Hartman, 1936
1037496 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1037496)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
Nereis (Nereis) Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, Olga. (1936). New species of polychaetous annelids of the family Nereidae from California. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 83(2994): 467-480., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7768020
page(s): 468; note: as Nereis (Nereis) eucapitis [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 468; note: as Nereis (Nereis) eucapitis [details] Available for editors

Holotype USNM 20198, geounit Monterey Bay
, Note According to the USNM record lot #20198 comes...
Holotype USNM 20198, geounit Monterey Bay [details]
Type locality According to the USNM record lot #20198 comes from Moss Beach, [near] Monterey, (gazetteer 36.8133° -121.7903°), one of the collection localities mentioned early in the article, but Hartman herself does not state this. Duxbury Reef, near San Francisco, California, gazetteer 37.8881°, -122.6981 is stated to be the northern extent of a distribution south to San Pedro. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis (Nereis) eucapitis Hartman, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1037496 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1936). New species of polychaetous annelids of the family Nereidae from California. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 83(2994): 467-480., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7768020
page(s): 468; note: as Nereis (Nereis) eucapitis [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 468; note: as Nereis (Nereis) eucapitis [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Reish, Donald J. (1954). Nomenclatural changes and redescription of two nereids (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the eastern Pacific. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 53(2): 99-106., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34300505
page(s): 99, 103; note: subjective synonym to Nereis grubei [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 99, 103; note: subjective synonym to Nereis grubei [details] Available for editors






Holotype USNM 20198, geounit Monterey Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality According to the USNM record lot #20198 comes from Moss Beach, [near] Monterey, (gazetteer 36.8133° -121.7903°), one of the collection localities mentioned early in the article, but Hartman herself does not state this. Duxbury Reef, near San Francisco, California, gazetteer 37.8881°, -122.6981 is stated to be the northern extent of a distribution south to San Pedro. [details]