WoRMS name details
Nereis ferruginea Gunnerus, 1770
339288 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339288)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Gunnerus, J.E. [Gunner / Gunneri]. (1770). Nogle smaa rare og meestendeelen nye Norske Soedyr. [Some nice little and mostly new Norwegian Sea animals.]. <em>Skrifter, som udi det Kiöbenhavnske Selskabets af laerdoms og Videnskabers Elskere, 1765-1769 (Actae Havniae).</em> 10:166-176, pl. 1.
page(s): 169, figure 10 (unnumbered plate); note: Norway [details]
page(s): 169, figure 10 (unnumbered plate); note: Norway [details]
Note Norway. Not Greenland as in Hartman Catalogue.
From editor or global species database
Type locality Norway. Not Greenland as in Hartman Catalogue. [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis ferruginea Gunnerus, 1770. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339288 on 2025-10-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Gunnerus, J.E. [Gunner / Gunneri]. (1770). Nogle smaa rare og meestendeelen nye Norske Soedyr. [Some nice little and mostly new Norwegian Sea animals.]. <em>Skrifter, som udi det Kiöbenhavnske Selskabets af laerdoms og Videnskabers Elskere, 1765-1769 (Actae Havniae).</em> 10:166-176, pl. 1.
page(s): 169, figure 10 (unnumbered plate); note: Norway [details]
page(s): 169, figure 10 (unnumbered plate); note: Norway [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. [Fauna Greenland, systematically presenting the animals of Western Greenland so far investigated, as to the specific name, trivial, vernacular, synonyms of the authors for the most part, description, place, life, generation, manners, use and catch of each one, as there was an opportunity to discover, and for the most part according to personal observations.]. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285
page(s): 292; note: placed as one of several synonyms of Nereis verrucosa Müller, 1776, but this is not possible as N. ferruginea Gunnerus has priority [details]
source of synonymy McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1910). A monograph of the British annelids. Polychaeta. Syllidae to Ariciidae. <em>Ray Society of London.</em> 2(2): 233-524., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38533042
page(s): 269; note: In the synonymy list for Nereis pelagica Linnaeus [details]
page(s): 292; note: placed as one of several synonyms of Nereis verrucosa Müller, 1776, but this is not possible as N. ferruginea Gunnerus has priority [details]
source of synonymy McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1910). A monograph of the British annelids. Polychaeta. Syllidae to Ariciidae. <em>Ray Society of London.</em> 2(2): 233-524., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38533042
page(s): 269; note: In the synonymy list for Nereis pelagica Linnaeus [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Authority Gunnerus, 1770, not Gunnerus in Fabricius, 1780, as in Hartman Catalogue (Hartman was indicating she saw the name in Fabricius, and didn't have access to the work of Gunnerus) [details]Type locality Norway. Not Greenland as in Hartman Catalogue. [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
