WoRMS name details
Protocapitella simplex Berkeley & Berkeley, 1932
336371 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336371)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1932). Some Capitellidae (Polychaeta) from the northeast Pacific with a description of a new genus. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 102(3): 669-675., available online at https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01091.x
page(s): 669-670, figs. 1-4 [details] Available for editors
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Note Wreck Bay, now Florencia Bay, West coast of...
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Type locality Wreck Bay, now Florencia Bay, West coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, estimated geolocation 48.9919, -125.6295 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Protocapitella simplex Berkeley & Berkeley, 1932. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336371 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1932). Some Capitellidae (Polychaeta) from the northeast Pacific with a description of a new genus. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 102(3): 669-675., available online at https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01091.x
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new combination reference Fournier, Judith A. and Barrie, John 1987. Revisionary commentary on Branchiomaldane (Polychaeta: Arenicolidae) with description of a new species from Labrador. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7: 97-107.
page(s): 101; note: recombined in Branchiomaldane [details]
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[request]new combination reference Fournier, Judith A. and Barrie, John 1987. Revisionary commentary on Branchiomaldane (Polychaeta: Arenicolidae) with description of a new species from Labrador. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7: 97-107.
page(s): 101; note: recombined in Branchiomaldane [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Berkeley, E. and Berkeley, C. 1950. Notes on Polychaeta from the coast of Western Canada. IV. Polychaeta Sedentaria. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3 (Series 12): 50-69.
page(s): 60; note: superseded synonymy to Branchiomaldane vincentii [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 60; note: superseded synonymy to Branchiomaldane vincentii [details] Available for editors
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Harmelin, J.-G. (1964). Etude de l'endofaune des "mattes" d'herbiers de <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> Delile [Research on the endofauna of <i>Posidonia oceanica</i> Delile mats]. <em>Recueil des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume.</em> 35(51): 43-105. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 89-90, plate 10; note: record for the French Mediterranean of Protocapitella simplex Berkeley, 1932 in Capitellidae, although the Berkeleys (1950) had already transferred the Canadian species to Branchiomaldane in Arenicoli...
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page(s): 89-90, plate 10; note: record for the French Mediterranean of Protocapitella simplex Berkeley, 1932 in Capitellidae, although the Berkeleys (1950) had already transferred the Canadian species to Branchiomaldane in Arenicoli...
record for the French Mediterranean of Protocapitella simplex Berkeley, 1932 in Capitellidae, although the Berkeleys (1950) had already transferred the Canadian species to Branchiomaldane in Arenicolidae
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Synonymy Berkeley & Berkeley (1950) synonymised Protocapitella simplex into Branchiomaldane vincentii Langerhans in Arenicolidae. [they used the spelling 'vincenti' which is wrong]. Later Fournier & Barrie (1987) re-validated the species as Branchiomaldane simplex. The record by Harmelin (1964) for the Mediterranean needs re-evaluation as he was unaware the Canadian species was an arenicolid. [details]Type locality Wreck Bay, now Florencia Bay, West coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, estimated geolocation 48.9919, -125.6295 [details]
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Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]
