World Polychaeta Database - Nephthys scolopendroides (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

Polychaeta name details

Nephthys scolopendroides (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

AphiaID

747192 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:747192)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (superseded combination)

Accepted name

Nephtys hombergii Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

Rank

Species

Parent

Nephthys [variant spelling of Nephtys] accepted as Nephtys Cuvier, 1817

Original name

Nereis scolopendroides Delle Chiaje, 1827

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Nereis scolopendroides Delle Chiaje, 1827) Delle Chiaje, Stefano 1825 [-1827]. [POLYCHAETA context. Vol.2] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli: Volume 2. 185-444. Stamperia delle Societa Tipografica, Napoli., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40280#7
page(s): 401, 424, plate 28, figure 8; note: Naples. Figure shows an unusual headstructure without antennae or cirri, but with possibly a projecting proboscis. Indeterminable to family but not Nereididae. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Nephthys scolopendroides (Delle Chiaje, 1828). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=747192 on 2026-05-18

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original description (of Nereis scolopendroides Delle Chiaje, 1827) Delle Chiaje, Stefano 1825 [-1827]. [POLYCHAETA context. Vol.2] Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli: Volume 2. 185-444. Stamperia delle Societa Tipografica, Napoli., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/40280#7
page(s): 401, 424, plate 28, figure 8; note: Naples. Figure shows an unusual headstructure without antennae or cirri, but with possibly a projecting proboscis. Indeterminable to family but not Nereididae. [details]

basis of record McIntosh, W. C. (1900). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. XX. 1. On the Reproduction and Development of Pholoe minuta, O. Fabr. 2. On the British Nephthydidae. 3. On Nephthys (Aglaophanus)[sic] inermis, Ehlers, from the 'Porcupine'. 4. On the Nephthydidae of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series</i>. Series 7. vol. 5(27):254-268, pl.7,8.
page(s): 258 [details]

biology source Claparède, Édouard; Mecznikow, Elias. (1869). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Entwicklungsgeschichte der Chaetopoden. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 163-205, Plates 12-17 (6 plates)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45006728
page(s): 187-189, plate XIV fig. 3; note: larval development [details]

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