WoRMS name details
Thormora (Lepidonotus) johnstoni (Kinberg, 1856)
340671 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340671)
unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination using an impossible subgenus)
Species
Thormora (Lepidonotus) [auct.] accepted as Thormora Baird, 1865
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Lepidonotus johnstoni Kinberg, 1856) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 384; note: very brief description. Collected Panama [details]
page(s): 384; note: very brief description. Collected Panama [details]
Nomenclature An impossible name structure as Lepidonotus is senior to Thormora and cannot be a subgenus of it. The reverse (Lepidonotus...
Nomenclature An impossible name structure as Lepidonotus is senior to Thormora and cannot be a subgenus of it. The reverse (Lepidonotus (Thormora) johnstoni is possible, and may have been what the Berkeley's intended. Thus a lapsus in name formation. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Thormora (Lepidonotus) johnstoni (Kinberg, 1856). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340671 on 2025-04-12
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Nomenclature
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(of Lepidonotus johnstoni Kinberg, 1856) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1856). Nya slägten och arter af Annelider, Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhhandlingar Stockholm, 12 (9-10), 381-388 [read 1855; printed 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15970133
page(s): 384; note: very brief description. Collected Panama [details]
basis of record Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1941). On a collection of Polychaeta from Southern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 40(1): 16-60, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34209137
page(s): 20; note: A species record of Thormora johnstoni as 'Thormora (Lepidonotus) johnstoni (Kinberg)". This formation is an impossible name, and is probably a lapsus [details]
page(s): 384; note: very brief description. Collected Panama [details]
basis of record Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1941). On a collection of Polychaeta from Southern California. <em>Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.</em> 40(1): 16-60, plate 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34209137
page(s): 20; note: A species record of Thormora johnstoni as 'Thormora (Lepidonotus) johnstoni (Kinberg)". This formation is an impossible name, and is probably a lapsus [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature An impossible name structure as Lepidonotus is senior to Thormora and cannot be a subgenus of it. The reverse (Lepidonotus (Thormora) johnstoni is possible, and may have been what the Berkeley's intended. Thus a lapsus in name formation. [details]
