WoRMS name details
Maldanopsis Verrill, 1900
325890 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325890)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
Maldane elongata Verrill, 1873 accepted as Sabaco elongatus (Verrill, 1873) (type by original designation)
- Species Maldanopsis elongata (Verrill, 1873) accepted as Sabaco elongatus (Verrill, 1873) (superseded subsequent combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 659 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 659 [details] Available for editors
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Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Maldanopsis Verrill, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325890 on 2026-06-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 659 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 659 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy
Arwidsson, Ivar. (1906). Studien über die skandinavischen und arktischen Maldaniden nebst Zusammenstellung der übrigen bisher bekannten Arten dieser Familie. <em>Inaugural-Dissertation zur erlangung der Doktorwürde. Der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultät zu Upsala, Upsala Universitet, Upsala [sic].</em> 1-308. Plates 1-12. [published 1906 or at latest 2 Feb 1907]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/39358
page(s): 261; note: former synonymy as synonym of Asychis [details]
source of synonymy Light, William J. H. (1991). Systematic revision of the genera of the polychaete subfamily Maldaninae Arwidsson. <em>Ophelia, supplement.</em> 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta): 133-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004629745_015
page(s): 141; note: to Sabaco [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 261; note: former synonymy as synonym of Asychis [details]
source of synonymy Light, William J. H. (1991). Systematic revision of the genera of the polychaete subfamily Maldaninae Arwidsson. <em>Ophelia, supplement.</em> 5 (Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta): 133-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004629745_015
page(s): 141; note: to Sabaco [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
