WoRMS name details
Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864
338050 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338050)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Baird, William. (1864). Description of several new species and varieties of Tubicolous Annelides = Tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1 [p.10-16, plate I figs. 2-4] Part 2 [p.16-22, plate II]. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(29): 10-22, plates I-II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601752
page(s): 20; note: from 'Seas of Australia' [details]
page(s): 20; note: from 'Seas of Australia' [details]
Note unspecified other than 'Seas of Australia'
Type locality unspecified other than 'Seas of Australia' [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pomatostegus bowerbanki Baird, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338050 on 2026-09-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Baird, William. (1864). Description of several new species and varieties of Tubicolous Annelides = Tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1 [p.10-16, plate I figs. 2-4] Part 2 [p.16-22, plate II]. <em>The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology.</em> 8(29): 10-22, plates I-II., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31601752
page(s): 20; note: from 'Seas of Australia' [details]
page(s): 20; note: from 'Seas of Australia' [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 588; note: In a listing is referred to Pomatostegus stellatus from the West Indies. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 588; note: In a listing is referred to Pomatostegus stellatus from the West Indies. [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Haswell, William Aitcheson. (1884). The marine annelides of the order <i>Serpulea</i>. Some observations on their anatomy, with the characteristics of the Australian species. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 9(3): 649-675, plates 31-35., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6602691
page(s): 663 [details]
page(s): 663 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
