WoRMS name details
Sthenelais variabilis glabra Potts, 1910
340972 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340972)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology.</em> 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
page(s): 350, plate 19 fig. 22 [details]
page(s): 350, plate 19 fig. 22 [details]
Note Indian Ocean, Zanzibar and Maldive Islands
From editor or global species database
Type locality Indian Ocean, Zanzibar and Maldive Islands [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. Sthenelais variabilis glabra Potts, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340972 on 2026-06-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology.</em> 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
page(s): 350, plate 19 fig. 22 [details]
page(s): 350, plate 19 fig. 22 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1971). Partial revision of the genus Sthenelais Kinberg (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae) with diagnoses of two new genera. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 109: 1-40., available online at http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/5688 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
