Polychaeta name details
original description
(of Serpula obtusa J. de C. Sowerby, 1829 †) Sowerby, J. De C. (1826-1835). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the Earth. Vol. VI. London, privately published, pp. 1-230 + index [231-235], pls 504-609. [pp. 1-86, pls 504-545 (1826); pp. 87-156, pls 546-580 (1827); pp. 157-200, pls 581-597 (1828); pp. 201-230, pls 598-609, index pp. 231-235 (1829); systematical index (1835)]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50339 page(s): 228, plate DCVIII, fig.8; note: fossil group on Inoceramus in Upper Chalk, Sayham, Norfolk [details]
basis of record
Regenhardt, H. (1961). Serpulidae (Polychaeta Sedentaria) aus der Kreide Mitteleuropas, ihre ökologische, taxionomische und stratigraphische Bewertung. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Geologischen Staatsinstitut in Hamburg.</em> 30: 5-115, plates 1-9. page(s): 53; note: New combination as Proliserpula (Proliserpula) obtusa (Sowerby, 1829) [details]
new combination reference
Ware, S. (1975). British Lower Greensand Serpulidae. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 18(1): 93-116., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49759592 page(s): 108; note: In a text comment moved to Ware's Propomatoceros by S. Ware, 1975 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment authority corrected Feb 2019. Authority was incorrectly recorded on WoRMS as Ware, 1975 instead of the much earlier Sowerby (1829). See Ware (1975: 108) for name history. [details]
Type locality British Isles, fossil from Norfolk chalk, originally placed in Serpula [details]
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