WoRMS taxon details
Composetia obocki (Gravier, 1899)
1600975 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1600975)
accepted
Species
Ceratonereis obockensis Gravier, 1900 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (objective synonym in which...)
objective synonym in which Gravier changed the name of the type specimen from 'obocki' to 'obockensis' in later publications
Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier, 1899 · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier, 1899) Gravier, Charles. (1899). Contribution à l'étude des Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 5: 234-244., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42892523
page(s): 240-241, figs. 12-15 [details]
page(s): 240-241, figs. 12-15 [details]
Holotype (of Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier,... , Type locality contained in Red Sea
Holotype (of Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier, 1899) MNHN POLY TYPE 303, geounit Obok [details]
type locality contained in Red Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Composetia obocki (Gravier, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1600975 on 2024-04-18
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original description
(of Ceratonereis obockensis Gravier, 1900) Gravier, Charles. (1900). Contribution à l'étude des annélides polychètes de la Mer Rouge. Première partie. <em>Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> (Series 4) 2: 137-282, plates 9-14., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36872698
page(s): plate 11, figure 44 & 45; note: figure caption and head and jaws figures as "C. obockensis", clearly abbreviating Ceratonereis as figure 42 is captioned Ceratonereis mirabilis. [details]
original description (of Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier, 1899) Gravier, Charles. (1899). Contribution à l'étude des Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 5: 234-244., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42892523
page(s): 240-241, figs. 12-15 [details]
new combination reference Villalobos-Guerrero, T. F.; Conde-Vela, V. M.; Sato, M. (2022). Review of <i>Composetia</i> Hartmann-Schröder, 1985 (Annelida: Nereididae), with the establishment of two new similar genera. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 55(37-38): 2313-2397., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933.2021.1976295
page(s): 2323, Table 3; note: included in the Composetia key and Table 3 as a Composetia. There is no mention of the status of C. obockensis [details] Available for editors
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page(s): plate 11, figure 44 & 45; note: figure caption and head and jaws figures as "C. obockensis", clearly abbreviating Ceratonereis as figure 42 is captioned Ceratonereis mirabilis. [details]
original description (of Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier, 1899) Gravier, Charles. (1899). Contribution à l'étude des Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 5: 234-244., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42892523
page(s): 240-241, figs. 12-15 [details]
new combination reference Villalobos-Guerrero, T. F.; Conde-Vela, V. M.; Sato, M. (2022). Review of <i>Composetia</i> Hartmann-Schröder, 1985 (Annelida: Nereididae), with the establishment of two new similar genera. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 55(37-38): 2313-2397., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222933.2021.1976295
page(s): 2323, Table 3; note: included in the Composetia key and Table 3 as a Composetia. There is no mention of the status of C. obockensis [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Nereis (Ceratonereis) obocki Gravier, 1899) MNHN POLY TYPE 303, geounit Obok [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Ceratonereis obocki and C. obockensis are the same taxon (now Composetia obocki), described by the same author, based on the same type, collected from the same place (Obock). This does not seem to have been noticed or pointed out in the literature, as for example Wehe & Fiege (2002, page 75) list them as if they were different species. See the original records for both names. The correct name is Composetia obocki as that was the first epithet used by Gravier. Villalobos-Guerrero et al (2022: 2324) seem to be aware of this as when discussing 'obocki' they cite in a footnote the article in which Gravier used 'obockensis', but they make no comment on the anomaly [G Read, September, 2022]. [details]
