WoRMS name details
Vermilia mahoria Quatrefages, 1866
332824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332824)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
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): 520, no figures; note: New Zealand, from collection of the museum [details]
page(s): 520, no figures; note: New Zealand, from collection of the museum [details]
Note New Zealand. No place name is mentioned. The...
From editor or global species database
Type locality New Zealand. No place name is mentioned. The specimen came to the Paris museum from the collections of Du Petit-Thouars, Eydoux, & Hombron (Quatrefages 1866, vol 2, p.520) [details]
Etymology Not stated. It is likely Vermilia mahoria is based on a little-used obsolete term, 'mahori', for members of the so-called...
Etymology Not stated. It is likely Vermilia mahoria is based on a little-used obsolete term, 'mahori', for members of the so-called "brown polynesians", including the New Zealand Maori. In 1866 Quatrefages, who was also an anthropologist, also wrote a book called "Les Polynésiens et leurs migrations". He doesn't appear to use the word 'mahori' therein, but later in a work by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900: "Studies scientific and Social" page 404), also considering the Polynesian migrations, and analyzing Quatrefages work, the term is used and defined. "Mahori" is also the name for a Cambodian and Thai musical ensemble, but this seems coincidental and not relevant here. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Vermilia mahoria Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332824 on 2025-12-13
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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): 520, no figures; note: New Zealand, from collection of the museum [details]
page(s): 520, no figures; note: New Zealand, from collection of the museum [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Day, J. H.; Hutchings, P. (1979). An annotated check-list of Australian and New Zealand Polychaeta, Archiannelida and Myzostomida. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 32(3): 80-161., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.32.1979.203
page(s): 146 [details]
page(s): 146 [details]
Other
additional source
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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additional source Hutton, F. W. 1878. Catalog of the hitherto undescribed worms of New Zealand. (Turbellaria,Trematoda, Nermertina, Gephyrea, Chaetopoda). Transactions New Zealand Inst. 11: 314-327. [details]
[request]additional source Hutton, F. W. 1878. Catalog of the hitherto undescribed worms of New Zealand. (Turbellaria,Trematoda, Nermertina, Gephyrea, Chaetopoda). Transactions New Zealand Inst. 11: 314-327. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. It is likely Vermilia mahoria is based on a little-used obsolete term, 'mahori', for members of the so-called "brown polynesians", including the New Zealand Maori. In 1866 Quatrefages, who was also an anthropologist, also wrote a book called "Les Polynésiens et leurs migrations". He doesn't appear to use the word 'mahori' therein, but later in a work by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900: "Studies scientific and Social" page 404), also considering the Polynesian migrations, and analyzing Quatrefages work, the term is used and defined. "Mahori" is also the name for a Cambodian and Thai musical ensemble, but this seems coincidental and not relevant here. [details]Synonymy regarded to be indeterminable by Hartman (1959: 606), it was questionably referred to Spirobranchus carinifer by Day & Hutchings (1979: 146), which acc. to the original description indeed is likely. [details]
Syntype Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 712 [details]
Type locality New Zealand. No place name is mentioned. The specimen came to the Paris museum from the collections of Du Petit-Thouars, Eydoux, & Hombron (Quatrefages 1866, vol 2, p.520) [details]
