WoRMS name details
Clymenura johnstoni (McIntosh, 1915)
130283 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130283)
unaccepted (superseded recombination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Leiochone johnstoni McIntosh, 1915) McIntosh, William Carmichel. (1915). Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. <em>A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids.</em> The Ray Society, London, 3 (1): i-viii, 1-368 (text)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38532650
page(s): 319-320, plate C fig. 19, plate CVIII figs. 7-7c [details]
page(s): 319-320, plate C fig. 19, plate CVIII figs. 7-7c [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Clymenura johnstoni (McIntosh, 1915). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130283 on 2025-04-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Leiochone johnstoni McIntosh, 1915) McIntosh, William Carmichel. (1915). Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. <em>A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids.</em> The Ray Society, London, 3 (1): i-viii, 1-368 (text)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38532650
page(s): 319-320, plate C fig. 19, plate CVIII figs. 7-7c [details]
page(s): 319-320, plate C fig. 19, plate CVIII figs. 7-7c [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Imajima, M.; Shiraki, Y. (1982). Maldanidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Japan. Part 1. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series A (Zoology).</em> 8(1): 1-46., available online at http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004311971/en
page(s): 14; note: comment in text flow, using the name "Clymenura (Clymenura) johnstoni" without indication it is not an original combination [details]
status source Read, Geoffrey B. (2011). A new Clymenura (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the intertidal of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, with a reassessment of Leiochone Grube, 1868 and Clymenura Verrill, 1900. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2934: 39-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2934.html
note: uses the original combination in Leiochone as the valid combination [details]
page(s): 14; note: comment in text flow, using the name "Clymenura (Clymenura) johnstoni" without indication it is not an original combination [details]
status source Read, Geoffrey B. (2011). A new Clymenura (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the intertidal of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, with a reassessment of Leiochone Grube, 1868 and Clymenura Verrill, 1900. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2934: 39-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2934.html
note: uses the original combination in Leiochone as the valid combination [details]
Other
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
New combination It is not known who used Clymenura johnstoni first as a new combination, but it has few usages. Imajima & Shiraki (1982) comment in text flow, using the name "Clymenura (Clymenura) johnstoni" without indicating it is not an original combination. Read (2011) reverted the valid name to the original Leiochone johnstoni [details]
