WoRMS name details
Amaea antipoda Augener, 1926
339609 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339609)
unaccepted (superseded original combination (replaced genus homonym))
Species
Amaea Malmgren, 1866 accepted as Amaeana Hartman, 1959
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Augener, Hermann. (1926). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXXIV. Polychaeta III. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. II. Sedentaria. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn.</em> 81: 157-294.
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Holotype reportedly unlocatable, museum (Gottingen?)...
, Note Lyttelton, New Zealand, -43.6075, 172.7181...
Holotype reportedly unlocatable, museum (Gottingen?) & code not known, geounit Lyttelton Harbour [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Lyttelton, New Zealand, -43.6075, 172.7181 (gazetteer estimate) [details]
Nomenclature Nogueira et al (2015) state several times that Amaea antipoda is a nomen nudum. This is not correct. Amaea antipoda (now...
Nomenclature Nogueira et al (2015) state several times that Amaea antipoda is a nomen nudum. This is not correct. Amaea antipoda (now Amaeana antipoda) is an available name and represents a valid species. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Amaea antipoda Augener, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339609 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Augener, Hermann. (1926). Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. XXXIV. Polychaeta III. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. II. Sedentaria. <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Forening i Köbenhavn.</em> 81: 157-294.
page(s): 241-242, fig. 17 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 241-242, fig. 17 [details] Available for editors

Other
additional source
Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Carrerette, Orlemir; Hutchings, Pat A. (2015). Review of <em>Amaeana</em> Hartman, 1959 (Annelida, Terebelliformia, Polycirridae), with descriptions of seven new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3994(1): 1-52., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3994.1.1
note: searched unsuccessfully for the syntypes [details] Available for editors
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note: searched unsuccessfully for the syntypes [details] Available for editors






Holotype reportedly unlocatable, museum (Gottingen?) & code not known, geounit Lyttelton Harbour [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Nogueira et al (2015) state several times that Amaea antipoda is a nomen nudum. This is not correct. Amaea antipoda (now Amaeana antipoda) is an available name and represents a valid species. [details]Type locality Lyttelton, New Zealand, -43.6075, 172.7181 (gazetteer estimate) [details]