WoRMS name details

Megalomma nechamae Knight-Jones, 1997

329295  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329295)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination, genus is a replaced homonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Knight-Jones, P. (1997). Two new species of <i>Megalomma</i> (Sabellidae) from Sinai and New Zealand with redescriptions of some types and a new genus. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 60(2): 313-323., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1997/00000060/00000002/art00013 [details] 
Note Indian Ocean, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea  
Type locality Indian Ocean, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Megalomma nechamae Knight-Jones, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329295 on 2025-04-05
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2017-06-14 01:49:52Z
changed

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Nomenclature

original description Knight-Jones, P. (1997). Two new species of <i>Megalomma</i> (Sabellidae) from Sinai and New Zealand with redescriptions of some types and a new genus. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 60(2): 313-323., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1997/00000060/00000002/art00013 [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Gil, João; Nishi, Eijiroh. (2017). Nomenclatural checklist for <i>Acromegalomma</i> species (Annelida, Sabellidae), a <i>nomen novum</i> replacement for the junior homonym <i>Megalomma</i> Johansson, 1926. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 677: 131-150., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.677.12030
page(s): 141; note: to Acromegalomma [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea [details]