WoRMS name details
Pomatoceros coeruleus [auctt. misspelling for caeruleus]
334589 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334589)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (Misspelling of a junior synonym, which should be P. caeruleus)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Placostegus caeruleus Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 29-30, 1 text-fig. [in page 30], Plate 21, figure 178; note: from South Africa and from New Zealand [details]
page(s): 29-30, 1 text-fig. [in page 30], Plate 21, figure 178; note: from South Africa and from New Zealand [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pomatoceros coeruleus [auctt. misspelling for caeruleus]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334589 on 2025-11-16
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Nomenclature
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(of Placostegus caeruleus Schmarda, 1861) Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 29-30, 1 text-fig. [in page 30], Plate 21, figure 178; note: from South Africa and from New Zealand [details]
basis of record Knox, George A. (1949). Studies on a New Zealand serpulid Pomatoceros coeruleus [sic], Schmarda. <em>[thesis].</em> 127 pp. University of New Zealand Thesis for M. Sc., available online at https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5635
note: misspelling as 'coeruleus' [details]
page(s): 29-30, 1 text-fig. [in page 30], Plate 21, figure 178; note: from South Africa and from New Zealand [details]
basis of record Knox, George A. (1949). Studies on a New Zealand serpulid Pomatoceros coeruleus [sic], Schmarda. <em>[thesis].</em> 127 pp. University of New Zealand Thesis for M. Sc., available online at https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/5635
note: misspelling as 'coeruleus' [details]
Other
additional source
Knox, G. A. 1953. The intertidal ecology of Taylor's Mistake, Banks Peninsula. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 81(2): 189-220. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling Knox uses the wrong name spelling in his thesis title and makes a poor job of working out the synonymy for this common New Zealand shore serpulid. Some allowance must be made for the low availability of the relevant literature in New Zealand in 1949. [details]
