WoRMS taxon details
Myxicola pacifica Johnson, 1901
338854 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338854)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Johnson, Herbert Parlin. (1901). The Polychaeta of the Puget Sound region. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History.</em> 29(18): 381-437, plates 1-19., available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsbost07unkngoog#page/n436/mode/2up
page(s): 431-432, plate 19 figs. 193-198 [details]
page(s): 431-432, plate 19 figs. 193-198 [details]
Note Type locality Port Orchard and Pleasant...
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Type locality Type locality Port Orchard and Pleasant Beach, Puget Sound, NE Pacific Ocean [details]
Taxonomy revalidated by Putignano, Gravili & Giangrande, 2023 based on description of syntypes and a further Friday Harbour specimen
Taxonomy revalidated by Putignano, Gravili & Giangrande, 2023 based on description of syntypes and a further Friday Harbour specimen [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Myxicola pacifica Johnson, 1901. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338854 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Johnson, Herbert Parlin. (1901). The Polychaeta of the Puget Sound region. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society for Natural History.</em> 29(18): 381-437, plates 1-19., available online at http://www.archive.org/stream/proceedingsbost07unkngoog#page/n436/mode/2up
page(s): 431-432, plate 19 figs. 193-198 [details]
page(s): 431-432, plate 19 figs. 193-198 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1938). Annotated list of the types of polychaetous annelids in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 85(1): 3-31, plates 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4537955
page(s): 19, plate 1 figures 5-11, plate 2 figure 1; note: Myxicola pacifica specimens from California and British Columbia are synonymized with Myxicola infundibulum [details] Available for editors
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status source Putignano, M.; Gravili, C.; Giangrande, A. (2023). The peculiar case of <i>Myxicola infundibulum</i> (Polychaeta: Sabellidae): echo from a science 200 years old and description of four new taxa in the Mediterranean Sea. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 90(1): 506-546., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24750263.2023.2219710
page(s): 535, figures 14-15; note: revalidation of Myxicola pacifica based on specimen from Friday Harbor (Washington, USA) [48°32ʹ37.9″N, 123°00′08.6″W] by AG in 1989, in the intertidal zone, and two Johnson syntypes from th...
[details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 19, plate 1 figures 5-11, plate 2 figure 1; note: Myxicola pacifica specimens from California and British Columbia are synonymized with Myxicola infundibulum [details] Available for editors

status source Putignano, M.; Gravili, C.; Giangrande, A. (2023). The peculiar case of <i>Myxicola infundibulum</i> (Polychaeta: Sabellidae): echo from a science 200 years old and description of four new taxa in the Mediterranean Sea. <em>The European Zoological Journal.</em> 90(1): 506-546., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24750263.2023.2219710
page(s): 535, figures 14-15; note: revalidation of Myxicola pacifica based on specimen from Friday Harbor (Washington, USA) [48°32ʹ37.9″N, 123°00′08.6″W] by AG in 1989, in the intertidal zone, and two Johnson syntypes from th...
revalidation of Myxicola pacifica based on specimen from Friday Harbor (Washington, USA) [48°32ʹ37.9″N,
123°00′08.6″W] by AG in 1989, in the intertidal zone, and two Johnson syntypes from the MCZH (MCZ
ANNb-1893 and MCZ ANNb-1879)






From editor or global species database
Taxonomy revalidated by Putignano, Gravili & Giangrande, 2023 based on description of syntypes and a further Friday Harbour specimen [details]Type locality Type locality Port Orchard and Pleasant Beach, Puget Sound, NE Pacific Ocean [details]
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Specimen Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard [details]