Polychaeta name details
Aphrodita elliptica versicolor Johnston, 1865
340842 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340842)
unaccepted > nomen nudum (the name is not valid under ICZN Article 11.6.2 )
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 102 [details]
page(s): 102 [details]
Type locality contained in British Isles
, Note "Kentish coast"
type locality contained in British Isles [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "Kentish coast" [details]
Nomenclature Hill (1752) is pre-Linnaean and he can not be an author (ICZN 3.2). The ‘type’ for this subspecies is Hill’s...
Nomenclature Hill (1752) is pre-Linnaean and he can not be an author (ICZN 3.2). The ‘type’ for this subspecies is Hill’s description as cited in Johnston (1865) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Aphrodita elliptica versicolor Johnston, 1865. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340842 on 2025-04-29
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Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 102 [details]
additional source McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A monograph of British Annelids. vol.1. pt.2. Polychaeta Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. Ray Society of London, 1(l2): 215-442., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38577949
page(s): 247 [details]
additional source Hill, John. (1752). An history of animals: containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes and insects, of the several parts of the world, and including accounts of the several classes of animalcules, visible only by the assistance of microscopes. <em>London: Printed for Thomas Osborne.</em> 584 pp. 28 leaves of plates., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxZAAAAcAAJ&rdid=book-ctxZAAAAcAAJ&rdot=1 [details]
page(s): 102 [details]
additional source McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A monograph of British Annelids. vol.1. pt.2. Polychaeta Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. Ray Society of London, 1(l2): 215-442., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38577949
page(s): 247 [details]
additional source Hill, John. (1752). An history of animals: containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes and insects, of the several parts of the world, and including accounts of the several classes of animalcules, visible only by the assistance of microscopes. <em>London: Printed for Thomas Osborne.</em> 584 pp. 28 leaves of plates., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxZAAAAcAAJ&rdid=book-ctxZAAAAcAAJ&rdot=1 [details]



