WoRMS taxon details
Harmothoe hirsuta Johnson, 1897
174459 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174459)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Johnson, Herbert P. 1897. A preliminary account of the marine annelids of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Ser. 3, 1(5): 153-199., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingscali01sciegoog
page(s): 182-183, plate 6 figures 27-29, plate 7 figure 38, plate 8 figure 53; note: Intertidal, and to 3-4 fathoms at San Pedro, under stones; Johnson uses Harmothoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]
page(s): 182-183, plate 6 figures 27-29, plate 7 figure 38, plate 8 figure 53; note: Intertidal, and to 3-4 fathoms at San Pedro, under stones; Johnson uses Harmothoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Harmothoe hirsuta Johnson, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174459 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Johnson, Herbert P. 1897. A preliminary account of the marine annelids of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Ser. 3, 1(5): 153-199., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingscali01sciegoog
page(s): 182-183, plate 6 figures 27-29, plate 7 figure 38, plate 8 figure 53; note: Intertidal, and to 3-4 fathoms at San Pedro, under stones; Johnson uses Harmothoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]
page(s): 182-183, plate 6 figures 27-29, plate 7 figure 38, plate 8 figure 53; note: Intertidal, and to 3-4 fathoms at San Pedro, under stones; Johnson uses Harmothoe with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Ruff, R. Eugene. (1995). Family Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867. 105-166. IN: Blake, James A., Hilbig, Brigitte, and Scott, Paul H. (Ed.). Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 5 - The Annelida Part 2. Polychaeta: Phyllodocida (Syllidae and scale-bearing families), Amphinomida, and Eunicida. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara.
page(s): 130, figure 3.10; note: Redescription includes from the syntype LACM Poly 0017 (a syntype although Ruff says it is a holotype) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 130, figure 3.10; note: Redescription includes from the syntype LACM Poly 0017 (a syntype although Ruff says it is a holotype) [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Valencia-Soto, D. (2021). Scale-bearing beauty: Intertidal scale-worms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from Punta Blanca (Arequipa, Peru). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5032(2): 151-194., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5032.2.1
page(s): 178-190, figures 17-22, table 5; note: as Harmothoe aff. hirsuta Johnson, 1897 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 178-190, figures 17-22, table 5; note: as Harmothoe aff. hirsuta Johnson, 1897 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Identification Possibly Johnson (1897) combined two species in his description. According to Salazar-Silva (2006:149) the specimen redescribed by Ruff (1995), which he thought was the holotype, was one of two syntypes (but according to LACM curator Leslie Harris there are three specimens). According to Salazar-Silva there is a specimen at MCZ which she thinks is the one Johnson described. She gives the details as "MCZ 135, San Pedro, California, collected H.P. Johnson, 25 July 1895, No 433". She does not explain how this specimen got to MCZ, when Johnson states his specimens are deposited at the University of California, where he was a professor. [details]
