WoRMS name details
Sthenelais leidyi Quatrefages, 1866
332173 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332173)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
Sthenelais picta Verrill, 1873 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 278; note: just the name, based on the Sthenelais mathildae usage by Leidyi, with no explanation [details]
page(s): 278; note: just the name, based on the Sthenelais mathildae usage by Leidyi, with no explanation [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey
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Type locality Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sthenelais leidyi Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332173 on 2025-05-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 278; note: just the name, based on the Sthenelais mathildae usage by Leidyi, with no explanation [details]
page(s): 278; note: just the name, based on the Sthenelais mathildae usage by Leidyi, with no explanation [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746
page(s): 50; note: synonymy of Hartman etc usages of S leidyi to Sthenelais boa. There are no remarks on the synonymy [details]
status source Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University.</em> 8(1): 1-98.
page(s): 30; note: includes S picta Verrill, 1873, and Sthenelais leidyi Quatrefages as synonyms of Sthenelais boa (Johnston) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 50; note: synonymy of Hartman etc usages of S leidyi to Sthenelais boa. There are no remarks on the synonymy [details]
status source Hartman, O. (1942). A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University.</em> 8(1): 1-98.
page(s): 30; note: includes S picta Verrill, 1873, and Sthenelais leidyi Quatrefages as synonyms of Sthenelais boa (Johnston) [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Leidy, J. (1855). Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine Invertebrate fauna of the coasts of Rhode Island and New Jersey. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 3(2) no. 11: 135-152, pls. 10-11. (xii-1855)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36848120
page(s): 148; note: record from New Jersey of Sigalion mathildae Audouin & Milne Edwards. Quatrefages (1866) made this record into Sthenelais leidyi [details]
page(s): 148; note: record from New Jersey of Sigalion mathildae Audouin & Milne Edwards. Quatrefages (1866) made this record into Sthenelais leidyi [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Editor's comment The species name originates from an apparent misidentification by Leidy (1855). Quatrefages (1866: 278) enigmatically created the name Sthenelais leidyi for a Sigalion mathildae identification by Leidy as occurring in New Jersey. There is no explanation but evidently Quatrefages regarded the specimen as misidentified by Leidy. Hartman (1942) presents Sthenelais leidyi Quatrefages (p.278) as if a replacement name for Sigalion mathildae Leidy, 1855 (with separating punctuation lacking) from the New Jersey coast, as quote "(new name for S. mathildae Leidy, not Audouin & M. Edwards)". She means to report it was Quatrefages' name for the USA occurrence record claimed by Leidy of the Audouin & Milne Edwards species S. mathildae from France. [details]Type locality Atlantic Ocean, New Jersey [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Sthenelais picta Verrill, 1873)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (94 records) (from synonym Sthenelais picta Verrill, 1873)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 095764)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (94 records) (from synonym Sthenelais picta Verrill, 1873)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 095764)
