WoRMS taxon details
Pherecardites monroi Salazar-Vallejo, Piotrowski, Harris & Paulay, 2025
1847872 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1847872)
accepted
Species
Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924 · unaccepted > junior homonym (valid but becomes junior...)
valid but becomes junior secondary homonym when recombined into Pherecardites
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924) Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1924). On the Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Alert,' 1878-1882. Families Aphroditidae and Amphinomidae. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 36(240): 65-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1924.tb02208.x [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype (of Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924) BMNH NHML...
Holotype (of Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924) BMNH NHML 1925.1.28.144, geounit Macclesfield Bank [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pherecardites monroi Salazar-Vallejo, Piotrowski, Harris & Paulay, 2025. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1847872 on 2026-04-07
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Nomenclature
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(of Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924) Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1924). On the Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Alert,' 1878-1882. Families Aphroditidae and Amphinomidae. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London.</em> 36(240): 65-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1924.tb02208.x [details] Available for editors [request]
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Holotype (of Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924) BMNH NHML 1925.1.28.144, geounit Macclesfield Bank [details]
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Nomenclature note New name for Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924 following its recombination by Salazar-Vallejo et al (2025) to Pherecardites in order to avoid junior homonymy to existing Pherecardites parva Horst, 1912 [details]
