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Polychaeta taxon details

Ehlersileanira simplex (Ehlers, 1887)

1606664 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1606664)

accepted
Species
Leanira simplex (Ehlers, 1887) · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent...)  
superseded subsequent combination, combination is based on a misidentified record
Sthenelais simplex Ehlers, 1887 · unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Sthenelais simplex Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 60–63, pl. 13, figs 2,3, pl. 14, figs 1–5 (partim, not pl. 14, fig. 6 (=acoetidae); note: Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, 28°42’N, 88°40’W, 97 m [details] 
Type locality contained in Caribbean Sea  
type locality contained in Caribbean Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Ehlersileanira simplex (Ehlers, 1887). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1606664 on 2026-07-11
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original description (of Sthenelais simplex Ehlers, 1887) Ehlers, E. (1887). Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L. F. Pourtalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878-79), in the U.S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake", Lieut-Com. C. D. Sigsbee, U.S.N. and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXXI. Report on the Annelids. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 15: vi & 335 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30734338
page(s): 60–63, pl. 13, figs 2,3, pl. 14, figs 1–5 (partim, not pl. 14, fig. 6 (=acoetidae); note: Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, 28°42’N, 88°40’W, 97 m [details] 

new combination reference Cruz-Gómez, Christopher. (2022). Reinstatement of <i>Ehlersileanira simplex</i> (Ehlers, 1887) comb. nov. reinst., distinct from <i>E. incisa</i> (Grube, 1877) (Annelida: Sigalionidae), with a key to all the species of <i>Ehlersileanira</i>. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 56(1-4): 157-172., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222933.2022.2033867
note: from Sthenelais original combination and reinstated from synonymy with Ehlersileanira incisa (Grube, 1877) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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