WoRMS name details

Potamethus littoralis Hartman, 1967

174619 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174619)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Canalipalpata (Infraclass)
  7. Sabellida (Order)
  8. Sabellidae (Family)
  9. Sabellinae (Subfamily)
  10. Potamethus (Genus)
  11. Potamethus littoralis (Species)
 unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Perkinsiana magalhaensis (Kinberg, 1867)
Species
Potamethus Chamberlin, 1919
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 174-175, plate 51 figs. A-F [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note Antarctic Ocean, South Shetland Islands  
Unreviewed
Type locality Antarctic Ocean, South Shetland Islands [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Potamethus littoralis Hartman, 1967. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174619 on 2026-07-03
Date
action
by
2005-07-14 08:59:00Z
created
Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2017-07-02 20:49:35Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 174-175, plate 51 figs. A-F [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; de León-González, Jesús Ángel; Bybee, David R. (2017). Sabellid worms from the Patagonian Shelf and Humboldt Current System (Annelida, Sabellidae): Phyllis Knight-Jones' and José María Orensanz's collections. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4283(1): 1-64., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4283.1.1
page(s): 43, 47; note: to Perkinsiana magalhaensis [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

status source Knight-Jones, Phyllis. (1983). Contributions to the taxonomy of Sabellidae (Polychaeta. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 79: 245-295., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/79/3/245/2661635
page(s): 288; note: recombined to Perkinsiana [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality Antarctic Ocean, South Shetland Islands [details]
To NMNH Extant Collection (Potamethus littoralis (1) 55570) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Potamethus littoralis 55570) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 55570) 
Unreviewed

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