WoRMS name details
Samythella eliasoni Day, 1973
331199 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331199)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 113-115, fig. 15g-m [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 113-115, fig. 15g-m [details] Available for editors
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Holotype USNM 43145, geounit North Carolina Shelf
, Note off Beaufort, North Carolina, 34.37 -75.85, 190 m
Holotype USNM 43145, geounit North Carolina Shelf [details]
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Type locality off Beaufort, North Carolina, 34.37 -75.85, 190 m [details]
Taxonomy Day claimed to be renaming Eclysippe vanelli sensu Eliason (1955) as Samythella eliasoni, but his taxon was based on a...
Taxonomy Day claimed to be renaming Eclysippe vanelli sensu Eliason (1955) as Samythella eliasoni, but his taxon was based on a specimen from off Beaufort, North Carolina, rather than on Eliason's material. Aguirrezabalaga & Parapar (2014:12) state that they "do not follow Hansson (1998) who proposed that the Arctic and the North Sea material reported as E. vanelli should be Eclysippe eliasoni (Day, 1973), a species described by Day (1973) from the Beaufort Sea." Note that Hansson [an online checklist] appears to be also including Lysippe vanelli Fauvel under E. eliasoni, which is obviously not a possible placement as it is an available senior name. Note also that Day described his species from Beaufort North Carolina, not the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic as was assumed by Aguirrezabalaga & Parapar. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Samythella eliasoni Day, 1973. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331199 on 2026-03-19
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Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852
page(s): 113-115, fig. 15g-m [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 113-115, fig. 15g-m [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 43145, geounit North Carolina Shelf [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Day claimed to be renaming Eclysippe vanelli sensu Eliason (1955) as Samythella eliasoni, but his taxon was based on a specimen from off Beaufort, North Carolina, rather than on Eliason's material. Aguirrezabalaga & Parapar (2014:12) state that they "do not follow Hansson (1998) who proposed that the Arctic and the North Sea material reported as E. vanelli should be Eclysippe eliasoni (Day, 1973), a species described by Day (1973) from the Beaufort Sea." Note that Hansson [an online checklist] appears to be also including Lysippe vanelli Fauvel under E. eliasoni, which is obviously not a possible placement as it is an available senior name. Note also that Day described his species from Beaufort North Carolina, not the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic as was assumed by Aguirrezabalaga & Parapar. [details]Type locality off Beaufort, North Carolina, 34.37 -75.85, 190 m [details]
