WoRMS name details
original description
Willey, Arthur. (1904). Littoral Polychaeta from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology.</em> 9(6): 255-268, plates 13-14., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16416472 page(s): 261, plate 13 fig. 10, plate 14 figs. 9-10 [details]
additional source
Fauvel, Pierre. (1927). Rapport sur les Annélides Polychètes Errantes [Zoological results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Channel, 1924]. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22(4): 411-439., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1927.tb00203.x page(s): 430; note: records and description as Nereis (Neanthes) capensis [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
status source
Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 39(263): 15-82., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x note: Day creates a replacement name because of secondary homonymy [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Neanthes capensis is no longer a secondary homonym (in Nereis), and would return to validity if not already replaced. However, the name was replaced by Day (1934) with Nereis willeyi [details]
Type locality Cape of Good Hope, South Africa [details]
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