WoRMS name details
Eurythoe assimilis McIntosh, 1924
336242 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336242)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
McIntosh, W. C. [as M'Intosh]. (1924). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. XLVI. 1. The Occurrence of Opercular Development in Mercierella enigmatica, Fauvel, a new British Serpulid. 2. Preliminary Notice of a Second Contribution to the Marine Polychaeta of South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 9) 14(79): 1-52., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222932408633091
page(s): 4, no figures; note: preliminary description, as "Another Eurythoe, which has been named E. assimilis~ was obtained in Portuguese East Africa, at Inhaca." [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 4, no figures; note: preliminary description, as "Another Eurythoe, which has been named E. assimilis~ was obtained in Portuguese East Africa, at Inhaca." [details] Available for editors
[request]
Note East Africa
Unreviewed
Type locality East Africa [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Eurythoe assimilis McIntosh, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336242 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
McIntosh, W. C. [as M'Intosh]. (1924). Notes from the Gatty Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews. No. XLVI. 1. The Occurrence of Opercular Development in Mercierella enigmatica, Fauvel, a new British Serpulid. 2. Preliminary Notice of a Second Contribution to the Marine Polychaeta of South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (Series 9) 14(79): 1-52., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222932408633091
page(s): 4, no figures; note: preliminary description, as "Another Eurythoe, which has been named E. assimilis~ was obtained in Portuguese East Africa, at Inhaca." [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 4, no figures; note: preliminary description, as "Another Eurythoe, which has been named E. assimilis~ was obtained in Portuguese East Africa, at Inhaca." [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy
Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
redescription McIntosh, W. C. (1925). A second contribution to the marine polychaetes of South Africa. <em>Union South African Fisheries Marine Biological Survey, Report.</em> 5(4): 1-93, plates I-X.
page(s): 14, plate 1, figure 5; note: the full description with figures [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription McIntosh, W. C. (1925). A second contribution to the marine polychaetes of South Africa. <em>Union South African Fisheries Marine Biological Survey, Report.</em> 5(4): 1-93, plates I-X.
page(s): 14, plate 1, figure 5; note: the full description with figures [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Publication date As McIntosh (1924) published a preliminary description the species dates from 1924, not from the full description with figure in 1925. He wrote: "Another Eurythoe, which has been named E. assimilis~ was obtained in Portuguese East Africa, at Inhaca." and he provides a description in the following text. [details]Unreviewed
Specimen The Natural History Museum, London [details]Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Type locality East Africa [details]
