WoRMS name details
Serpula lactea Adams, 1798
528093 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:528093)
unaccepted (foraminifer erroneously described in a polychaete genus)
Species
marine
Adams, G.; Kanmacher, F. (1798). Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and œconomy : an account of the various species, and singular properties, of the hydræ and vorticellæ: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula : with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope. <em>[Book].</em> 724 pp. Second edition, by the late George Adams, further edited by Kanmacher., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45704067
page(s): 634; note: as Serpula Lactea, which is not what Boys & Walker used in 1784 [details]
page(s): 634; note: as Serpula Lactea, which is not what Boys & Walker used in 1784 [details]
Homonymy senior homonym of Serpula lactea Milne Edwards, 1836 (1840?) , presently synonymised with the serpulid polychaete Serpula...
Status non- serpulid but Foraminifera, attributed to Vermiculum by Montagu; to Miliola by Brown 1827 and presently to the genus...
Homonymy senior homonym of Serpula lactea Milne Edwards, 1836 (1840?) , presently synonymised with the serpulid polychaete Serpula concharum Langerhans, 1880 [details]
Status non- serpulid but Foraminifera, attributed to Vermiculum by Montagu; to Miliola by Brown 1827 and presently to the genus...
Status non- serpulid but Foraminifera, attributed to Vermiculum by Montagu; to Miliola by Brown 1827 and presently to the genus Laryngosigma (note aded by serpulid editor HAtH) [details]
WoRMS (2024). Serpula lactea Adams, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528093 on 2024-04-19
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Adams, G.; Kanmacher, F. (1798). Essays on the microscope : containing a practical description of the most improved microscopes; a general history of insects, their transformations, peculiar habits, and œconomy : an account of the various species, and singular properties, of the hydræ and vorticellæ: a description of three hundred and eighty-three animalcula : with a concise catalogue of interesting objects: a view of the organization of timber, and the configuration of salts, when under the microscope. <em>[Book].</em> 724 pp. Second edition, by the late George Adams, further edited by Kanmacher., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45704067
page(s): 634; note: as Serpula Lactea, which is not what Boys & Walker used in 1784 [details]
additional source Turton W. (1802). A General System of Nature, through the three grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals; systematicallydivided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure,and peculiarities. Translated from Gmelin's last edition of the celebrated Systema Natura, by Sir Charles Linné : Amended andenlarged by the improvements and discoveries of later naturalists and societies, with appropriate copper-pla. <i>Lackington and co. 4 vol.</i>: , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83209
page(s): 609; note: Listing as Serpula retorta with authorship attributed (correctly) to Adams, not Walker & Jacob [details]
new combination reference Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]
new combination reference Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 527 [details]
status source ICZN; International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. (1959). Opinion 558. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of the work entitled "Testacea minuta rariora" by William Boys as augmented by George Walker published in 1784. <em>Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 20(25): 277-282., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34655540
note: Multi-word names of Boys & Walker are rejected, including some for Serpula [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 634; note: as Serpula Lactea, which is not what Boys & Walker used in 1784 [details]
additional source Turton W. (1802). A General System of Nature, through the three grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals; systematicallydivided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure,and peculiarities. Translated from Gmelin's last edition of the celebrated Systema Natura, by Sir Charles Linné : Amended andenlarged by the improvements and discoveries of later naturalists and societies, with appropriate copper-pla. <i>Lackington and co. 4 vol.</i>: , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83209
page(s): 609; note: Listing as Serpula retorta with authorship attributed (correctly) to Adams, not Walker & Jacob [details]
new combination reference Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]
new combination reference Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 527 [details]
status source ICZN; International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. (1959). Opinion 558. Rejection for nomenclatorial purposes of the work entitled "Testacea minuta rariora" by William Boys as augmented by George Walker published in 1784. <em>Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 20(25): 277-282., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34655540
note: Multi-word names of Boys & Walker are rejected, including some for Serpula [details] Available for editors
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Authority Adams (1798) is the authority, not Walker & Jacob, which is a fictional authorship. See comments under Adams as source, and under Serpula sulcata Adams [details]Homonymy senior homonym of Serpula lactea Milne Edwards, 1836 (1840?) , presently synonymised with the serpulid polychaete Serpula concharum Langerhans, 1880 [details]
Status non- serpulid but Foraminifera, attributed to Vermiculum by Montagu; to Miliola by Brown 1827 and presently to the genus Laryngosigma (note aded by serpulid editor HAtH) [details]
