WoRMS taxon details
Aricidea (Acmira) simplex Day, 1963
333037 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:333037)
accepted
Species
Acmira simplex (Day, 1963) · alternative representation (recombination not currently used)
Aricidea neosuecica nipponica Imajima, 1973 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Aricidea simplex Day, 1963 · alternative representation
Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963) Day, J.H. 1963. Polychaete Fauna of South Africa: Part 7. Species from depths between 1,000 and 3,330 meters west of Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum, 46(14): 353-371., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40867181
page(s): 364-365, fig. 3a-b; note: As a 'variety' and thus problematic after 1960. Day states the observation is a new record for South Africa, which must be a reference to A suecica [details]
page(s): 364-365, fig. 3a-b; note: As a 'variety' and thus problematic after 1960. Day states the observation is a new record for South Africa, which must be a reference to A suecica [details]
Holotype (of Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963) SAMC,...
Holotype (of Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963) SAMC, geounit South Africa [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Aricidea (Acmira) simplex Day, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=333037 on 2025-11-07
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963) Day, J.H. 1963. Polychaete Fauna of South Africa: Part 7. Species from depths between 1,000 and 3,330 meters west of Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum, 46(14): 353-371., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40867181
page(s): 364-365, fig. 3a-b; note: As a 'variety' and thus problematic after 1960. Day states the observation is a new record for South Africa, which must be a reference to A suecica [details]
original description (of Aricidea neosuecica nipponica Imajima, 1973) Imajima, Minoru 1973. Paraonidae (Polychaeta) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 16(2): 253-292.
page(s): 263-265, fig. 5a-f [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
page(s): 364-365, fig. 3a-b; note: As a 'variety' and thus problematic after 1960. Day states the observation is a new record for South Africa, which must be a reference to A suecica [details]
original description (of Aricidea neosuecica nipponica Imajima, 1973) Imajima, Minoru 1973. Paraonidae (Polychaeta) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 16(2): 253-292.
page(s): 263-265, fig. 5a-f [details]
basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Blake, J.A. 1996. Family Paraonidae Cerruti, 1909. pages 27-70. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul H. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 6 - The Annelida Part 3. Polychaeta: Orbiniidae to Cossuridae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Lovell, Lawrence L. (2002). Paraonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Andaman Sea, Thailand. <em>Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication.</em> 24: 33-56.
page(s): 45-46, fig. 7A-C [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Lovell, Lawrence L. (2002). Paraonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the Andaman Sea, Thailand. <em>Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication.</em> 24: 33-56.
page(s): 45-46, fig. 7A-C [details] Available for editors
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
Holotype (of Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963) SAMC, geounit South Africa [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ボウズヒメエラゴカイ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aricidea simplex) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To PESI (from synonym Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Acmira simplex (Day, 1963))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (34 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aricidea simplex) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Aricidea simplex Day, 1963)
To PESI (from synonym Aricidea suecica simplex Day, 1963)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Acmira simplex (Day, 1963))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (34 records)