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Polychaeta name details

Serpula shackletoni Wilckens, 1910

1766101  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1766101)

 unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Wilckens, O. (1910). Die Anneliden, Bivalven und Gastropoden der Antarktischen Kreideformation. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar Expedition 1901-1903.</em> Band 3, Lief. 12: 1-132., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49429821
page(s): 6, plate 1; note: As Serpula (Burtinella?) shackletoni [details] 
Note collected on Seymour and Cockburn islands,...  
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Type locality collected on Seymour and Cockburn islands, Antarctica [details]
Etymology author: "Ich benenne diese Art nach Herrn Shackleton, der bis heute die höchste Breite gegen den Südpol erreicht hat." [I...  
Etymology author: "Ich benenne diese Art nach Herrn Shackleton, der bis heute die höchste Breite gegen den Südpol erreicht hat." [I name this species after Mr. Shackleton, who to date has reached the highest latitude towards the South Pole.] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Serpula shackletoni Wilckens, 1910. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1766101 on 2025-05-03
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original description Wilckens, O. (1910). Die Anneliden, Bivalven und Gastropoden der Antarktischen Kreideformation. <em>Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Südpolar Expedition 1901-1903.</em> Band 3, Lief. 12: 1-132., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49429821
page(s): 6, plate 1; note: As Serpula (Burtinella?) shackletoni [details] 
From editor or global species database
Classification Wilckens (1910) composed the new name as "Serpula (Burtinella?) shackletoni". Burtinella is a Mollusca genus of Mörch (1861) in Vermetidae, and it is not apparent why Wilckens included the name under a Polychaeta genus. [details]

Etymology author: "Ich benenne diese Art nach Herrn Shackleton, der bis heute die höchste Breite gegen den Südpol erreicht hat." [I name this species after Mr. Shackleton, who to date has reached the highest latitude towards the South Pole.] [details]

Type locality collected on Seymour and Cockburn islands, Antarctica [details]