Polychaeta name details
original description
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 520, no figures; note: New Zealand, from collection of the museum [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. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Hutton, F. W. 1878. Catalog of the hitherto undescribed worms of New Zealand. (Turbellaria,Trematoda, Nermertina, Gephyrea, Chaetopoda). Transactions New Zealand Inst. 11: 314-327. [details]
status source
Day, J. H.; Hutchings, P. (1979). An annotated check-list of Australian and New Zealand Polychaeta, Archiannelida and Myzostomida. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 32(3): 80-161., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.32.1979.203 page(s): 146 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. It is likely Vermilia mahoria is based on a little-used obsolete term, 'mahori', for members of the so-called "brown polynesians", including the New Zealand Maori. In 1866 Quatrefages, who was also an anthropologist, also wrote a book called "Les Polynésiens et leurs migrations". He doesn't appear to use the word 'mahori' therein, but later in a work by Alfred Russel Wallace (1900: "Studies scientific and Social" page 404), also considering the Polynesian migrations, and analyzing Quatrefages work, the term is used and defined. "Mahori" is also the name for a Cambodian and Thai musical ensemble, but this seems coincidental and not relevant here. [details]
Synonymy regarded to be indeterminable by Hartman (1959: 606), it was questionably referred to Spirobranchus carinifer by Day & Hutchings (1979: 146), which acc. to the original description indeed is likely. [details]
Syntype Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 712 [details]
Type locality New Zealand. No place name is mentioned. The specimen came to the Paris museum from the collections of Du Petit-Thouars, Eydoux, & Hombron (Quatrefages 1866, vol 2, p.520) [details]
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