WoRMS name details

Harmothoe corralophila Day, 1960

337643  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337643)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345 [details]   
Note South Africa  
From editor or global species database
Type locality South Africa [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe corralophila Day, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337643 on 2024-04-18
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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original description Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

source of synonymy Pettibone, M.H. (1991). Polynoids commensal with gorgonian and stylasterid corals, with a new genus, new combinations and new species (Polychaeta: Polynoidae: Polynoinae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 104(4): 688-713., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34809390 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Specimen The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Spelling The incorrect spelling of coral (latin corallum, English coral) is striking, but is as the author published it, as the spelling 'corralophila' is repeated several times. There is no etymology but the species occurs in galls on stylasterid corals. [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality South Africa [details]