WoRMS name details
Nereis vittata Delle Chiaje, 1829
336600 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336600)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
delle Chiaje, Stefano. (1829 1830 1831). [POLYCHAETA context] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. <em>[book series].</em> Volume IV. i-viii, 1-214. Stamperia della Societa' Tipografica. Napoli. Plates in a separate volume of 1830., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40485
page(s): 195, plate 63, figure 12 (plates in separate volume, not mentioned in text) [details]
page(s): 195, plate 63, figure 12 (plates in separate volume, not mentioned in text) [details]
Etymology Nereis vittata is named using the adjective vittatus -a -um, meaning decorated or bound with a ribbon, perhaps a reference...
Etymology Nereis vittata is named using the adjective vittatus -a -um, meaning decorated or bound with a ribbon, perhaps a reference to the different coloured anterior segment common in Eunice species (which Nereis vittata is), or perhaps to some other characteristic entirely. Delle Chiaje's description is short and puzzling, "Corpore hyalino aequaliter ac transverse luteo-vittato" but it is unclear what that means. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis vittata Delle Chiaje, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336600 on 2026-09-16
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Nomenclature
original description
delle Chiaje, Stefano. (1829 1830 1831). [POLYCHAETA context] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. <em>[book series].</em> Volume IV. i-viii, 1-214. Stamperia della Societa' Tipografica. Napoli. Plates in a separate volume of 1830., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40485
page(s): 195, plate 63, figure 12 (plates in separate volume, not mentioned in text) [details]
page(s): 195, plate 63, figure 12 (plates in separate volume, not mentioned in text) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Grube, Adolf Eduard. (1850). Die Familien der Anneliden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 16(1): 249-364., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6958350 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Nereis vittata is named using the adjective vittatus -a -um, meaning decorated or bound with a ribbon, perhaps a reference to the different coloured anterior segment common in Eunice species (which Nereis vittata is), or perhaps to some other characteristic entirely. Delle Chiaje's description is short and puzzling, "Corpore hyalino aequaliter ac transverse luteo-vittato" but it is unclear what that means. [details]Publication date Sherborn (1922) in the second part (1800-1850) of his Index Animalium suggests (without certainty) that volume 4 of Delle Chiaje pages 117-214 was published in 1831. This should be considered as the latest possible date, however the title page date is 1829 [details]
Type locality Gulf of Naples, Italy, Mediterranean Sea [details]
Type specimen Fauchald (Genus review 1992:337) reports that the types are no longer in existence. [details]
