WoRMS name details

Aphrodita hoptakero [auct. misspelling for heptakera]

326498  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326498)

 unaccepted (misspelling)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Aphrodita heptakera Otto, 1821) Otto, A.G. (1821). Conspectus animalium quorundam maritimorum nondum editorum pars prior quam patri dilectissimo ad cineres usque venerando Bernhardo Crristiano Otto pro celebrando die laetissimo XI. Maji MDCCCXXI quo ante decem lustra honores doctorales acceperat. Typis Universitatis, Vratislaviae, 20 pp. , available online at http://opac.nebis.ch/F/?local_base=NEBIS&CON_LNG=GER&func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=006471451
page(s): 16; note: brief Latin diagnosis, no figures [details] OpenAccess publication
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Aphrodita hoptakero [auct. misspelling for heptakera]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326498 on 2024-11-21
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2016-10-26 23:59:46Z
changed
2016-10-27 09:11:05Z
changed

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original description (of Aphrodita heptakera Otto, 1821) Otto, A.G. (1821). Conspectus animalium quorundam maritimorum nondum editorum pars prior quam patri dilectissimo ad cineres usque venerando Bernhardo Crristiano Otto pro celebrando die laetissimo XI. Maji MDCCCXXI quo ante decem lustra honores doctorales acceperat. Typis Universitatis, Vratislaviae, 20 pp. , available online at http://opac.nebis.ch/F/?local_base=NEBIS&CON_LNG=GER&func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=006471451
page(s): 16; note: brief Latin diagnosis, no figures [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. (1832). [Part 1] Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> Sér. 1, 27: 337-447., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6062037
page(s): 410; note: misspelling of Aphrodita heptakera Otto, 1821 [details] 

additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 52; note: misspelling repeated of Aphrodita heptakera Otto, 1821 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Authority Hartman Catalogue attributed the authority to "Otto in Audouin and Milne Edwards, 1832". However, this is seriously misleading if taken literally as Hartman just meant she found the name in Audouin and Milne Edwards and saw it was attributed to Otto, but she didn't know of Otto's 1821 work, or that the spelling was correctly "heptakera". Obviously Otto had nothing to do with this misspelling. [details]

Spelling Audouin & Milne Edwards commented that Otto "sous le nom bizarre d'Aphrodita hoptakero" had collected a variety of Aphrodita hystrix. However, they made their own bizarre mistake in the spelling of Otto's name. It should have been "heptakera". Also Otto's specimens came from Nice, not Bay of Naples as they state.  [details]