Polychaeta taxon details
Oxydromus blacki (Knox, 1960)
990561 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:990561)
accepted
Species
Nereimyra blacki Knox, 1960 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Parasyllidea blacki (Knox, 1960) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Nereimyra blacki Knox, 1960) Knox, George A. (1960). Biological Results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 3. Polychaeta errantia. <em>New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin.</em> 139(3): 77-143., available online at https://archive.org/details/nzoimemoir00061960 [details] Available for editors
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Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Oxydromus blacki (Knox, 1960). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990561 on 2025-05-04
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(of Nereimyra blacki Knox, 1960) Knox, George A. (1960). Biological Results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 3. Polychaeta errantia. <em>New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin.</em> 139(3): 77-143., available online at https://archive.org/details/nzoimemoir00061960 [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Martin, Daniel; Nygren, Arne; Hjelmstedt, Per; Drake, Pilar; Gil, João;. (2015). On the enigmatic symbiotic polychaete ‘Parasyllidea' humesi Pettibone, 1961 (Hesionidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and behaviour. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174 (3): 429-446., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12249/full
page(s): 429; note: O. blacki not formally placed in Oxydromus but the recombination is a consequence of the synonymy of Parasyllidea with Oxydromus created by the authors. Nereimyra blacki (the basionym) is a Parasyllid...
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new combination reference Martin, Daniel; Nygren, Arne; Hjelmstedt, Per; Drake, Pilar; Gil, João;. (2015). On the enigmatic symbiotic polychaete ‘Parasyllidea' humesi Pettibone, 1961 (Hesionidae): taxonomy, phylogeny and behaviour. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 174 (3): 429-446., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zoj.12249/full
page(s): 429; note: O. blacki not formally placed in Oxydromus but the recombination is a consequence of the synonymy of Parasyllidea with Oxydromus created by the authors. Nereimyra blacki (the basionym) is a Parasyllid...
O. blacki not formally placed in Oxydromus but the recombination is a consequence of the synonymy of Parasyllidea with Oxydromus created by the authors. Nereimyra blacki (the basionym) is a Parasyllidea as the proboscis lacks papillae (has only 'hairs' = cilia?)




Syntype (of Nereimyra blacki Knox, 1960) CMNZ, verbatimGeounit SE of Pitt Island, C... [details]
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New combination Oxydromus blacki not formally placed in Oxydromus but the recombination is a consequence of the synonymy of Parasyllidea with Oxydromus created by Martin et al. (2015). Nereimyra blacki (the basionym) is/was a Parasyllidea as the proboscis lacks papillae (has only 'hairs' = cilia?) [details]