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Polychaeta name details

Nereis maroccensis [auct. misspelling]

329688 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329688)

 unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (misspelling of moroccensis in Solis-Weiss et al. 2004)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Nereis moroccensis Amoureux, 1976) Amoureux, Louis. (1976). Une intéressante collection de Néréidiens (Annélides Polychètes) des côtes marocaines du détroit de Gilbraltar. <i>Nereis moroccensis</i>, espèce nouvelle pour la science. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Série 3 (370), Zoologie.</em> 258: 337-349., available online at http://bionames.org/bionames-archive/issn/0300-9386/258/337.pdf
page(s): 344-348, figs. 5-10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Note Morocco  
Unreviewed
Type locality Morocco [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Nereis maroccensis [auct. misspelling]. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329688 on 2026-08-16
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2026-06-04 09:43:42Z
changed

original description (of Nereis moroccensis Amoureux, 1976) Amoureux, Louis. (1976). Une intéressante collection de Néréidiens (Annélides Polychètes) des côtes marocaines du détroit de Gilbraltar. <i>Nereis moroccensis</i>, espèce nouvelle pour la science. <em>Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Série 3 (370), Zoologie.</em> 258: 337-349., available online at http://bionames.org/bionames-archive/issn/0300-9386/258/337.pdf
page(s): 344-348, figs. 5-10 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Solís-Weiss, Vivianne; Bertrand, Yann; Helléouet, Marie-Nöelle; Pleijel, Fredrik. (2004). Types of polychaetous annelids at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. <em>Zoosystema.</em> 26(3): 377-384, appendix S1-S21., available online at http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/26/3/les-types-d-annelides-polychetes-du-museum-national-d-histoire-naturelle-paris
page(s): S9; note: Authors report the Nereis 'moroccensis' type as 'maroccensis', possibly due to a misspelling in the Paris Museum register [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Putignano, Matteo; Toso, Andrea; Fumarola, Lara Marastella; Dimichele, Desirèe; Bariche, Michel; Giangrande, Adriana; Musco, Luigi; Piraino, Stefano; Langeneck, Joachim. (2026). To be or not to be alien, that is the question: the case of five new polychaete species from the Levantine Sea. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> 27(2): 330-356., available online at https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/42046
page(s): 339; note: Misspelling in mention in text flow. Authors were unaware of using the incorrect spelling of 'maroccensis' for correct 'moroccensis' when discussing an ambiguous assignment of records in WoRMS. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 1254-1256 [details]

Type locality Morocco [details]