WoRMS taxon details
Lycastonereis Nageswara Rao, 1981
324857 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324857)
accepted
Genus
Lycastonereis indica Nageswara Rao, 1981 (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Nageswara Rao, C. A. (1981). On two new polychaetes (Nereidae: Annelida) from estuarine waters of India. <em>Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India.</em> 3(3): 213-217., available online at https://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/bulletin/003/03/0213-0218.pdf [details] Available for editors 
[request]
[request]
Etymology Not stated but author explains that "characters of the present specimens have been found to fall in between those of the...
Etymology Not stated but author explains that "characters of the present specimens have been found to fall in between those of the two genera viz., Nereis Linnaeus and Lycastopsis (Augener)." Lycastopsis is a junior synonym of Namanereis [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lycastonereis Nageswara Rao, 1981. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324857 on 2025-04-02
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Nageswara Rao, C. A. (1981). On two new polychaetes (Nereidae: Annelida) from estuarine waters of India. <em>Bulletin of the Zoological Survey of India.</em> 3(3): 213-217., available online at https://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/bulletin/003/03/0213-0218.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated but author explains that "characters of the present specimens have been found to fall in between those of the two genera viz., Nereis Linnaeus and Lycastopsis (Augener)." Lycastopsis is a junior synonym of Namanereis [details]
