WoRMS name details
Terebella megalonema Schmarda, 1861
338570 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338570)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 45, 3 text-figs. [bottom of page] [details]
page(s): 45, 3 text-figs. [bottom of page] [details]
Type locality contained in Jamaican Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Caribbean Sea, Jamaica
type locality contained in Jamaican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Type locality Caribbean Sea, Jamaica [details]
Taxonomy Hartman catalogue incorrectly treated Leprea lapidaria as an original name from Augener 1918, when it is in its original...
Taxonomy Hartman catalogue incorrectly treated Leprea lapidaria as an original name from Augener 1918, when it is in its original combination from Linnaeus 1767 in Terebella [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Terebella megalonema Schmarda, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338570 on 2025-11-16
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Nomenclature
original description
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): 45, 3 text-figs. [bottom of page] [details]
page(s): 45, 3 text-figs. [bottom of page] [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): 526; note: referred in a listing to Leprea lapidaria, but Terebella lapidaria would be the valid name. Hartman incorrectly treated Leprea lapidaria as an original name from Augener 1918, when it is in its origin...
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page(s): 526; note: referred in a listing to Leprea lapidaria, but Terebella lapidaria would be the valid name. Hartman incorrectly treated Leprea lapidaria as an original name from Augener 1918, when it is in its origin...
referred in a listing to Leprea lapidaria, but Terebella lapidaria would be the valid name. Hartman incorrectly treated Leprea lapidaria as an original name from Augener 1918, when it is in its original combination from Linnaeus 1767
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additional source
Grube, A. E. (1867). Anneliden. <em>Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil.</em> 2(3.2): 1-46, plates I-IV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11710832
page(s): 33-34 [details]
page(s): 33-34 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
