World Polychaeta Database - Praxillella insecta (Ehlers, 1905)

WoRMS name details

Praxillella insecta (Ehlers, 1905)

AphiaID

340611 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340611)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (superseded recombination)

Accepted name

Euclymene insecta (Ehlers, 1904)

Rank

Species

Parent

Praxillella Verrill, 1881

Original name

Clymenella insecta Ehlers, 1904

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Clymenella insecta Ehlers, 1904) Ehlers, E. [Ernst]. (1904). Neuseeländische Anneliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 3(1): 1-80, 9 plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46755553
page(s): 54, plate 7, figures 16-19; plate 8, figures 1-5; note: Chatham Islands, collected Schauinsland [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy Moved to different genus

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Praxillella insecta (Ehlers, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340611 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-18 12:55:09Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

Licensing

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Sources (3)
Notes (1)

Nomenclature

original description (of Clymenella insecta Ehlers, 1904) Ehlers, E. [Ernst]. (1904). Neuseeländische Anneliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 3(1): 1-80, 9 plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46755553
page(s): 54, plate 7, figures 16-19; plate 8, figures 1-5; note: Chatham Islands, collected Schauinsland [details]

basis of record Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

new combination reference Augener, Hermann. (1926). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXXIV. Polychaeta III. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. II. Sedentaria. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn. 81: 157-294.
page(s): 192-193; note: nov. comb. as Praxillella insecta [details] Available for editors

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Unreviewed

Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]