WoRMS name details
Pallonia rapax Costa, 1862
340233 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340233)
uncertain > nomen dubium (indeterminable without a type)
Species
Pallonia Costa, 1862 accepted as Eupolymnia Verrill, 1900
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Costa, A. (1862). Descrizione di alcuni Anellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Università di Napoli.</em> 1(9): 82-90., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11823374
page(s): 89-90 [details]
page(s): 89-90 [details]
Note Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea
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Type locality Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea [details]
Status The Hartman checklist has Pallonia rapax as a junior syononym of Eupolymnia nebulosa (Montagu). In discussion of new...
Status The Hartman checklist has Pallonia rapax as a junior syononym of Eupolymnia nebulosa (Montagu). In discussion of new species Eupolymnia lacazei Lavesque et al (2021: 24) suggest the nearby Pallonia rapax (Gulf of Naples), lacking a type species, does not fit Eupolymnia genus on its morphology as described, and although apparently of a colour pattern like a Eupolymnia, occupies a different habitat from their new species. They consider Pallonia rapax as a nomen dubium. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pallonia rapax Costa, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340233 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Costa, A. (1862). Descrizione di alcuni Anellidi del Golfo di Napoli. <em>Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Università di Napoli.</em> 1(9): 82-90., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11823374
page(s): 89-90 [details]
page(s): 89-90 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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.
page(s): 513; note: Hartman's checklist places the sole species of Pallonia as a junior synonym of Eupolymnia nebulosa (Montagu) [details] Available for editors
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status source Lavesque, Nicolas; Daffe, Guillemine; Londoño-Mesa, Mario H.; Hutchings, Pat. (2021). Revision of the French Terebellidae sensu stricto (Annelida, Terebelliformia), with descriptions of nine new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5038(1): 1-63., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5038.1
page(s): 24; note: In discussion of new species Eupolymnia lacazei the authors suggest Pallonia rapax does not fit Eupolymnia genus [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 513; note: Hartman's checklist places the sole species of Pallonia as a junior synonym of Eupolymnia nebulosa (Montagu) [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Lavesque, Nicolas; Daffe, Guillemine; Londoño-Mesa, Mario H.; Hutchings, Pat. (2021). Revision of the French Terebellidae sensu stricto (Annelida, Terebelliformia), with descriptions of nine new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5038(1): 1-63., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5038.1
page(s): 24; note: In discussion of new species Eupolymnia lacazei the authors suggest Pallonia rapax does not fit Eupolymnia genus [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Costa, Achille. (1867). Illustrazione Iconografica degli Anellidi rari o poco conosciuti del Golfo di Napoli (Continuazion). <em>Annuario del Museo Zoologico della R. Università di Napoli [for year 1864].</em> 4: 52-56, plate 4 (fig.1a-g)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11823466
page(s): 53-54 [details]
page(s): 53-54 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Status The Hartman checklist has Pallonia rapax as a junior syononym of Eupolymnia nebulosa (Montagu). In discussion of new species Eupolymnia lacazei Lavesque et al (2021: 24) suggest the nearby Pallonia rapax (Gulf of Naples), lacking a type species, does not fit Eupolymnia genus on its morphology as described, and although apparently of a colour pattern like a Eupolymnia, occupies a different habitat from their new species. They consider Pallonia rapax as a nomen dubium. [details]Type locality Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea [details]
