WoRMS name details
Scolopendra marina Linnaeus, 1758
238246 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:238246)
uncertain > nomen dubium (indeterminable)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
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Taxonomy On usage in Annelida. The name as used regarding plate 10 by Slabber (1778 & 1781) was considered to be applied to an...
Taxonomy On usage in Annelida. The name as used regarding plate 10 by Slabber (1778 & 1781) was considered to be applied to an indeterminable Myrianida by Nygren (2004). Slabber's figure is of a female stolon with developing larvae in an egg sac. The name as used regarding plate 7 by Slabber is an indeterminable spionid.
Van der Hoeven (1862) identifies the taxa in Slabber's figures, but for this spionid-like one he says (in translation) " seems sort of to be a Spio, but I do not define this figure any further. " Later Horst (1898) places Slabber's Scolopendra marina in a synonymy of Polydora ciliata and Van Benthem Jutting (1970) continues this identification. However, the morphological detail does not match. The figure is indeterminable [details]
Van der Hoeven (1862) identifies the taxa in Slabber's figures, but for this spionid-like one he says (in translation) " seems sort of to be a Spio, but I do not define this figure any further. " Later Horst (1898) places Slabber's Scolopendra marina in a synonymy of Polydora ciliata and Van Benthem Jutting (1970) continues this identification. However, the morphological detail does not match. The figure is indeterminable [details]
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Nomenclature
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Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 639 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 639 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Gmelin, J.F. (1790). Insecta Lepidoptera - Aptera. <em>In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(5). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 2225-3020.</em> : 2225-3020.
note: to synonymy under two Nereis species [details]
note: to synonymy under two Nereis species [details]
Other
additional source
Claparède, É. (1868). Les annélides chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 19(2): 313-584, plates I-XVI., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14309905 [details]
additional source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 101; note: refers "Scolopendra marina" sensu Molyneux to Aphrodita aculeata [details]
additional source Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 680; note: considered the Slabber usage of Scolopendra marina as an indeterminable female stolon [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Scopoli, G. A. (1763). Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnaeana. Vindobonae. 1-420, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.34434
page(s): 419; note: usage of Scolopendra marina of "habitat in Fucis & Algis Maris Adriatici [details]
additional source Slabber, M. (1778). Natuurkundige Verlustigingen, behelzende microscopise Waarnemingen van in - en utilandse Water - en Land-Dieren. [Natural Delights, involving microscopy Observations of domestic and foreign Water and Land Animals]. <em>J. Bosch, Haarlem.</em> 166 pp, 18 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32799073
page(s): 83, plate 7 & 10; note: usage of Scolopendra marina for two different taxa. These plates republished in Slabber (1781) [details]
additional source Slabber, M. (1781). Physikalische Belustigungen oder Mikroskopische Wahrnehmungen von drey und vierzig in- und ausländischen Wasser- und Landthierchen durch Martinus Slabber, Mitglied der holländischen Societät der Wissenschaften, und der Vlißingischen, wie auch verschiedener deutschen Gesellschaften zur Aufnahme nüzlicher Künste und Wissenschaften. Winterschmidt, Nürnberg, 1-99 pp., XVIII plates., available online at http://digital.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/hd/content/titleinfo/1949371
page(s): 25-29 & 44-46; note: usage of Scolopendra marina for two different taxa [details]
additional source Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 101; note: refers "Scolopendra marina" sensu Molyneux to Aphrodita aculeata [details]
additional source Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf
page(s): 680; note: considered the Slabber usage of Scolopendra marina as an indeterminable female stolon [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Scopoli, G. A. (1763). Entomologia Carniolica exhibens insecta Carnioliae indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnaeana. Vindobonae. 1-420, available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.34434
page(s): 419; note: usage of Scolopendra marina of "habitat in Fucis & Algis Maris Adriatici [details]
additional source Slabber, M. (1778). Natuurkundige Verlustigingen, behelzende microscopise Waarnemingen van in - en utilandse Water - en Land-Dieren. [Natural Delights, involving microscopy Observations of domestic and foreign Water and Land Animals]. <em>J. Bosch, Haarlem.</em> 166 pp, 18 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32799073
page(s): 83, plate 7 & 10; note: usage of Scolopendra marina for two different taxa. These plates republished in Slabber (1781) [details]
additional source Slabber, M. (1781). Physikalische Belustigungen oder Mikroskopische Wahrnehmungen von drey und vierzig in- und ausländischen Wasser- und Landthierchen durch Martinus Slabber, Mitglied der holländischen Societät der Wissenschaften, und der Vlißingischen, wie auch verschiedener deutschen Gesellschaften zur Aufnahme nüzlicher Künste und Wissenschaften. Winterschmidt, Nürnberg, 1-99 pp., XVIII plates., available online at http://digital.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/hd/content/titleinfo/1949371
page(s): 25-29 & 44-46; note: usage of Scolopendra marina for two different taxa [details]
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Authority Scolopendra marina is a pre-Linnaean errant marine annelid, first appearing as a descriptive name in Aristotle's 'Historia Animalium' of ~335 BCE, probably in that record an instance of an amphinomid. It was included in the 6th edtiion of Systema Naturae where Linnaeus placed it under Nereis. However, in the 10th edtiion of Systema Naturae it was separate from Nereis, and briefly described by Linnaeus (1758: 639). . Slabber is not author of Scolopendra marina. Slabber (1778 & republished 1781) used this binomen to designate some marine worms that seemed to fit Linnaeus' vague description. In fact, Slabber (1781) applied the name Scolopendra marina to two very different forms of marine worms. First, to a spionid that he stated to be closer to Nereis, also by Linnaeus, than to Scolopendra (Slabber, 1781: 25-29, plate VII figs. 1-2), and secondly to an indeterminable autolytine (Slabber, 1781: 44-46, plate X figs. 3-5), which he stated to be close to the previous form. [details]Synonymy On usage in Annelida. Undoubtedly applied to several species over time (eg Slabber's usages). The 13th (Gmelin) edition of Systema Naturae removed the species Scolopendra marina from the Insecta, and reduced it to a synonym under Nereis versicolor and noctiluca [details]
Taxonomy On usage in Annelida. The name as used regarding plate 10 by Slabber (1778 & 1781) was considered to be applied to an indeterminable Myrianida by Nygren (2004). Slabber's figure is of a female stolon with developing larvae in an egg sac. The name as used regarding plate 7 by Slabber is an indeterminable spionid.
Van der Hoeven (1862) identifies the taxa in Slabber's figures, but for this spionid-like one he says (in translation) " seems sort of to be a Spio, but I do not define this figure any further. " Later Horst (1898) places Slabber's Scolopendra marina in a synonymy of Polydora ciliata and Van Benthem Jutting (1970) continues this identification. However, the morphological detail does not match. The figure is indeterminable [details]
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