Aphia taxon details
Pseudopotamilla elegans (Johansson, 1922)
334679 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334679)
accepted
Species
Potamilla elegans Johansson, 1922 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Potamilla elegans Johansson, 1922) Johansson, Karl Erik 1922. On some new tubicolous annelids from Japan, the Bonin Islands and the Antarctic. Arkiv för Zoologi, 15(2): 1-11. 4 plates
page(s): 7-8, plate I fig. 5 [details]
page(s): 7-8, plate I fig. 5 [details]
Type locality contained in Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pseudopotamilla elegans (Johansson, 1922). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334679 on 2026-08-10
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(of Potamilla elegans Johansson, 1922) Johansson, Karl Erik 1922. On some new tubicolous annelids from Japan, the Bonin Islands and the Antarctic. Arkiv för Zoologi, 15(2): 1-11. 4 plates
page(s): 7-8, plate I fig. 5 [details]
new combination reference Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts]., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/18946
page(s): 360, no figures; note: repeat record, transferred from Potamilla to Pseudopotamilla [details]
page(s): 7-8, plate I fig. 5 [details]
new combination reference Imajima, Minoru & Hartman, Olga. (1964). The polychaetous annelids of Japan. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 26(1-2): 1-452 [issued in 2 parts]., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/18946
page(s): 360, no figures; note: repeat record, transferred from Potamilla to Pseudopotamilla [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Classification Imajima & Hartman (1964) made the recombination to Pseudopotamilla, apparently considering the 4-lobed collar Pseudopotamilla-like, although they say the species lacks radiolar eyes (typical of Pseudopotamilla). Tovar-Hernández et al (2020) seem to credit this recombination to the WoRMS database. Not so, WoRMS only follows usages in the literature. [details]
