Polychaeta name details
original description
Dalyell, J.G. (1853). The Powers of the Creator displayed in the Creation: or, observations on life amidst the various forms of the humbler tribes of animated nature with practical comments and illustrations. <em>van Voorst, London.</em> 2 pp.359. John van Voorst. London., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18804951 page(s): 259, plate XXXVI figs. 12-15 [details]
additional source
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): 266; note: Not a polychaete according to Hartman [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment As noted by Hartman catalogue, Dalyell's Nereis pectinata is not a polychaete. The several figures show what might be a small copepod (Crustacea, hence the 'feathery' appendages mentioned by Dalyell. [details]From other sources
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Scotland [details]
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