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Polychaeta name details

Northia Johnston, 1865

325933 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325933)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Eunicida (Order)
  7. Onuphidae (Family)
  8. Hyalinoeciinae (Subfamily)
  9. Northia (Genus)
 unaccepted (replaced junior homonym)
Nothria Malmgren, 1867
Genus
Hyalinoeciinae Paxton, 1986

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  1. Species Northia conchylega (Sars, 1835) accepted as Nothria conchylega (Sars, 1835) (superseded recombination (generic homonym))
  2. Species Northia elegans Johnson, 1901 accepted as Onuphis elegans (Johnson, 1901) (superseded original combination)
  3. Species Northia geophiliformis Moore, 1903 accepted as Onuphis geophiliformis (Moore, 1903) (superseded original combination)
  4. Species Northia iridescens Johnson, 1901 accepted as Onuphis iridescens (Johnson, 1901) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 136 [details] OpenAccess publication
Homonymy Preoccupied by Northia Gray, 1847 in Mollusca (Buccinidae). Malmgren (1867:66) replaced Northia with Nothria, 'improving'...  
Homonymy Preoccupied by Northia Gray, 1847 in Mollusca (Buccinidae). Malmgren (1867:66) replaced Northia with Nothria, 'improving' the spelling as early authors sometimes thought they should do, but he may not have known Johnston's name was a junior homonym. He does not say so. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Northia Johnston, 1865. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325933 on 2026-09-08
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2008-03-14 12:50:56Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2011-10-11 21:29:17Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2026-08-05 22:32:19Z
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Read, Geoffrey

original description Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 136 [details] OpenAccess publication

replacement name source Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 66 [details] 
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Preoccupied by Northia Gray, 1847 in Mollusca (Buccinidae). Malmgren (1867:66) replaced Northia with Nothria, 'improving' the spelling as early authors sometimes thought they should do, but he may not have known Johnston's name was a junior homonym. He does not say so. [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Northia) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Northia) 
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