WoRMS taxon details
original description
Elgetany, Asmaa Haris; Struck, Torsten H.; Glasby, Christopher J.;. (2022). Three new species of the genus <em>Perinereis</em> (Annelida, Nereididae) from Egyptian coasts. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1132: 163-188., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/87629/list/9/ [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Teixeira, Marcos A. L.; Fourreau, Chloé Julie Loïs; Sempere-Valverde, Juan; Carvalho, Susana. (2024). Two new records and description of a new <em>Perinereis</em> (Annelida, Nereididae) species for the Saudi Arabian Red Sea region. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1196: 331-354., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/115260/list/9/ note: Dispersed mentions of Perinereis damietta, including in abstract and title, about its presence in the Neom Saudi Arabia area, but without precise details [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype DUFS 055, Damietta University - Faculty of Science (DUFS), Damietta, Egypt, geounit Red Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology authors: Perinereis damietta is "named after the university of the first author, Damietta University, a noun in apposition. Damietta (Egyptian Arabic: Dumyāț ( (طايمد is also a port city located on an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta" [details]
Type locality Grand Aquarium beach, Hurghada, northern Red Sea, subtidal (depth not given), clay bottom, at 27.1331, 33.8309 (27°07'59.2"N, 33°49'51.2"E) [details]
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