WoRMS name details

Onuphis (Nothria) australatlantica Fauchald, 1982

338882  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338882)

 unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fauchald, Kristian. (1982). Some species of <i>Onuphis</i> (Polychaeta: Onuphidae) from the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 95(2): 238-250., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34964548
page(s): 238-241, fig. 1a-j, table 1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Type locality contained in Southern Ocean  
type locality contained in Southern Ocean [details]
Note Antarctic Ocean  
Unreviewed
Type locality Antarctic Ocean [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Onuphis (Nothria) australatlantica Fauchald, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338882 on 2026-05-10
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2025-08-13 19:42:19Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description Fauchald, Kristian. (1982). Some species of <i>Onuphis</i> (Polychaeta: Onuphidae) from the Atlantic Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 95(2): 238-250., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34964548
page(s): 238-241, fig. 1a-j, table 1 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Orensanz, J.M. (1990). The Eunicemorph polychaete annelids from Antarctic and Subantarctic Seas. With addenda to the Eunicemorpha of Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and the Southern Indian Ocean. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 52: 1-183., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/AR052p0001/summary
page(s): 48-50, plate 10 figs. a-j, chart 5B; note: synonymy with Nothria abyssia [details] 

Other

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

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality Antarctic Ocean [details]