WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Ellis, J., 1755. An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10676206 page(s): 88 [details]
basis of record
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. page(s): 545 [details] Available for editors [request]
Taxonomy
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Not Polychaeta. This Record arises from Hartman (Catalogue, 1959:545), who included the name Fucus maritimus as a polychaete species, with authority cited as "Ellis in McIntosh, 1922" and she referred the species to Sabella penicillus, following McIntosh. However, McIntosh's mention of this species (the genus Fucus is an alga) in a synonymy is simply an error. Ellis described his species as a coralline plant - as the plate confirms to us. See Ellis 1755. [details]
Taxonomy Not Polychaeta. A mistaken inclusion by McIntosh in the synonymy of Sabella penicillus. The name McIntosh probably intended to include is Corallina Tubularia Melitensis Ellis, 1755; 92-93, plate 34 (= Sabella spallanzanii). Fucus maritimus is plate 33. [details]
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