WoRMS name details
Protula dysteri Huxley, 1855
338059 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338059)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Huxley, Thomas A. (1855). On a hermaphrodite and fissiparous species of tubicolar annelid. <em>Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.</em> (new series) 1: 113-129, plate 1., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41875300 [details] 
Holotype [unknown if exists] entry based on...
, Note "in about six fathoms water, near Proud...
Holotype [unknown if exists] entry based on geolocation, geounit Carmarthenshire [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality "in about six fathoms water, near Proud Giltar", Caermarthen Bay (now Carmarthen), Wales (Not Scotland as in Hartman catalogue), estimated geolocation of 51.72°, -4.58° [details]
Etymology Named for (p. 118) "my friend Mr Dyster of Tenby, in whose society it was discovered, and from whom I hope some day to see...
Etymology Named for (p. 118) "my friend Mr Dyster of Tenby, in whose society it was discovered, and from whom I hope some day to see good work in this branch of science" [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Protula dysteri Huxley, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338059 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Huxley, Thomas A. (1855). On a hermaphrodite and fissiparous species of tubicolar annelid. <em>Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.</em> (new series) 1: 113-129, plate 1., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41875300 [details]
new combination reference Giard, A. 1876. Note sur la développement de la Salmacina dysteri, Hux. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Science, Paris 82: 285-288.
page(s): 233; note: Pixell (1914) indicates Giard is the first to use recombination into Salmacina of Protula dysteri [details]
new combination reference Giard, A. 1876. Note sur la développement de la Salmacina dysteri, Hux. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Science, Paris 82: 285-288.
page(s): 233; note: Pixell (1914) indicates Giard is the first to use recombination into Salmacina of Protula dysteri [details]
Other
additional source
Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1863). Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift København.</em> Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft
page(s): 357; note: brief mention only of Protula dysteri [details]
additional source Gosse, Philip Henry 1855. Notes on some new or little known marine animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 2) 16:27-35, 305-312 (annelids 31-35, 308-312)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2263862
page(s): 312 [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.
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page(s): 357; note: brief mention only of Protula dysteri [details]
additional source Gosse, Philip Henry 1855. Notes on some new or little known marine animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (Series 2) 16:27-35, 305-312 (annelids 31-35, 308-312)., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2263862
page(s): 312 [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.
note: listing [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype [unknown if exists] entry based on geolocation, geounit Carmarthenshire [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Named for (p. 118) "my friend Mr Dyster of Tenby, in whose society it was discovered, and from whom I hope some day to see good work in this branch of science" [details]Type locality "in about six fathoms water, near Proud Giltar", Caermarthen Bay (now Carmarthen), Wales (Not Scotland as in Hartman catalogue), estimated geolocation of 51.72°, -4.58° [details]
