WoRMS name details
Vermilia incerta Quatrefages, 1866
332823 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332823)
unaccepted (objective synonym, superfluous new name)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 530; note: new name for the "Serpula vermicularis" in Müller Zoologia Danica, but Berkeley had already renamed it in 1834. [details]
(of Serpula incerta Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details]
page(s): 530; note: new name for the "Serpula vermicularis" in Müller Zoologia Danica, but Berkeley had already renamed it in 1834. [details]
(of Serpula incerta Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details]
Type locality contained in Danish Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Atlantic Ocean, Denmark
type locality contained in Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Denmark [details]
Taxonomy regarded to be indeterminable by Hartman (1959: 606); however, Vermilia incerta is Quatrefages' new name for Serpula...
Taxonomy regarded to be indeterminable by Hartman (1959: 606); however, Vermilia incerta is Quatrefages' new name for Serpula vermicularis non Linnaeus, 1767 sensu Müller, 1789 , which is an indeterminable Hydroides. Note however, that Berkeley, 1834 had already re-named Müller's Zoologia Danica figure in plate 86 as Serpula muelleri [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Vermilia incerta Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332823 on 2025-11-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ
page(s): 530; note: new name for the "Serpula vermicularis" in Müller Zoologia Danica, but Berkeley had already renamed it in 1834. [details]
original description (of Serpula incerta Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details]
basis of record Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 530; note: new name for the "Serpula vermicularis" in Müller Zoologia Danica, but Berkeley had already renamed it in 1834. [details]
original description (of Serpula incerta Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details]
basis of record Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy regarded to be indeterminable by Hartman (1959: 606); however, Vermilia incerta is Quatrefages' new name for Serpula vermicularis non Linnaeus, 1767 sensu Müller, 1789 , which is an indeterminable Hydroides. Note however, that Berkeley, 1834 had already re-named Müller's Zoologia Danica figure in plate 86 as Serpula muelleri [details]Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Denmark [details]
