WoRMS name details
Potamilla oligophthalma Iroso, 1921
1579598 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1579598)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4.
page(s): 83, figure 7; note: Gulf of Naples [details]
page(s): 83, figure 7; note: Gulf of Naples [details]
Note Golfo di Napoli, boring within Porites or...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Golfo di Napoli, boring within Porites or valves of molluscs [details]
Homonymy Tovar-Hernández et al (2020: 54) regarded Potamilla oligophthalma as a potential secondary homonym of Pseudopotamilla...
Homonymy Tovar-Hernández et al (2020: 54) regarded Potamilla oligophthalma as a potential secondary homonym of Pseudopotamilla oligophthamos (Grube, 1878). However, the two-letter difference in spelling is sufficient for the species names not to be homonyms. 'oligophthalmus -a -um' are the gender-variable adjectival forms, whereas Grube's 'oligophthamos' is an unusual and invariant noun form. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Potamilla oligophthalma Iroso, 1921. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1579598 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Iroso, Isabella. (1921). Revisione dei Serpulidi e Sabellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli.</em> 3: 47-91, plates 3-4.
page(s): 83, figure 7; note: Gulf of Naples [details]
page(s): 83, figure 7; note: Gulf of Naples [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Knight-Jones, Phyllis; Darbyshire, Teresa; Petersen, Mary E.; Tovar-Hernández, María Ana. (2017). What is <em>Pseudopotamilla </em><em>reniformis </em>(Sabellidae)? Comparisons of populations from Britain, Iceland and Canada with comments on <em>Eudistylia</em> and <em>Schizobranchia</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4254(2): 201-220., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4254.2.3
page(s): 212; note: tentatively (not in a formal synonymy) places Potamilla oligophthalma Iroso as a synonym of Pseudopotamilla saxicava [details] Available for editors
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status source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; ten Hove, Harry A.; Vinn, Olev; Zatoń, Michał; de León-González, Jesús Angel; García-Garza, María Elena. (2020). Fan worms (Annelida: Sabellidae) from Indonesia collected by the Snellius II Expedition (1984) with descriptions of three new species and tube microstructure. <em>PeerJ.</em> 8 (e9692): 1-72., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/9692/#
page(s): 54; note: repeats the informal synonymy to P. saxicava made by Knight-Jones et al (2017) [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 212; note: tentatively (not in a formal synonymy) places Potamilla oligophthalma Iroso as a synonym of Pseudopotamilla saxicava [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; ten Hove, Harry A.; Vinn, Olev; Zatoń, Michał; de León-González, Jesús Angel; García-Garza, María Elena. (2020). Fan worms (Annelida: Sabellidae) from Indonesia collected by the Snellius II Expedition (1984) with descriptions of three new species and tube microstructure. <em>PeerJ.</em> 8 (e9692): 1-72., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/9692/#
page(s): 54; note: repeats the informal synonymy to P. saxicava made by Knight-Jones et al (2017) [details] Available for editors
[request]From editor or global species database
Homonymy Tovar-Hernández et al (2020: 54) regarded Potamilla oligophthalma as a potential secondary homonym of Pseudopotamilla oligophthamos (Grube, 1878). However, the two-letter difference in spelling is sufficient for the species names not to be homonyms. 'oligophthalmus -a -um' are the gender-variable adjectival forms, whereas Grube's 'oligophthamos' is an unusual and invariant noun form. [details]Synonymy Knight-Jones et al (2017), and repeated by Tovar-Hernández et al (2020), tentatively (not in a formal synonymy) place Potamilla oligophthalma Iroso as a synonym of Pseudopotamilla saxicava. They state: "All three new species of Iroso (1921, as Potamilla) from the Gulf of Naples were synonymised with P. reniformis by Hartman (1959). As P. saxicava has been found to the west and the east of Italy and as Potamilla tronculata Iroso had their tubes within an empty oyster shell and P. oligophthalma Iroso was within Porites or valves of molluscs, it seems more likely that at least these two ‘species’ should be referred to P. saxicava. Iroso says nothing about the habitat of Potamilla obscura except that it never forms colonies. She mistakenly separated the three species on numbers of radiolar eyes and the length or absence of the mucro on each spoon-shaped thoracic chaeta [details]
Type locality Golfo di Napoli, boring within Porites or valves of molluscs [details]
