WoRMS source details
Bibliographic source, museum catalog numbers and type locality are given for ready reference. Synonyms are enclosed in brackets. New synonyms are preceded by an asterisk, uncertain ones by a question mark. Comments are made only on those types where changes of name are made and which have not been treated since first described.
In some specimens, for example the Ehlers' 1868 types, it is not certain that the specimens designated "types" are actually the holotypes. Also, with several of the Chamberlin, 1920 types, para types are included because it is not certain that the holotypes are still extant. A considerable number of types that have been reported as deposited in the Museum have not been found in the collections. They are not included in this paper. Many of the Ehlers' 1887 types, from Florida and vicinity, are dried or badly disintegrated. Little can be added to what is known of them without further collecting in the type localities.
Two genera of the family SABELLIDAE which are represented by species in considerable confusion, and for which important type materials are in the Museum, are taken up separately at the end of this paper. These genera are Eudistylia Bush and Pseudopotamilla Bush.
Thirty families of polychaetous annelids out of a total of fifty-seven families are represented by types in the Museum. These include 160 species, of which 40 are here regarded as synonyms. Eleven others are questionably synonyms also. This leaves a total of 119 types of valid species.
Aphrodita japonica Marenzeller, 1879 (basis of record)
Aphrodita leioseta Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Aphrodita japonica Marenzeller, 1879 (source of synonymy)
Asychis collariceps (Augener, 1906) accepted as Metasychis collariceps (Augener, 1926) (basis of record)
Bispira polymorpha Johnson, 1901 accepted as Eudistylia polymorpha (Johnson, 1901) (source of synonymy)
Branchiomma bioculatum Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Acromegalomma bioculatum (Ehlers, 1887) (additional source)
Branchiomma lobiferum Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Acromegalomma lobiferum (Ehlers, 1887) (source of synonymy)
Eudistylia brevicomata (Ehlers, 1905) (additional source)
Eudistylia polymorpha (Johnson, 1901) (basis of record)
Eumenia glabra Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Asclerocheilus glabrus (Ehlers, 1887) (source of synonymy)
Eunice longicirrata Webster, 1884 accepted as Eunice websteri Fauchald, 1969 (additional source)
Eunice longicirrata (Kinberg, 1865) (source of synonymy)
Glycera americana Leidy, 1855 (additional source)
Glycera corrugata Baird, 1863 accepted as Glycera americana Leidy, 1855 (source of synonymy)
Glycera peruviana Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Glycera americana Leidy, 1855 (source of synonymy)
Glycera rugosa Johnson, 1901 accepted as Glycera americana Leidy, 1855 (source of synonymy)
Hesione vittigera Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Hesione picta Müller in Grube, 1858 (source of synonymy)
Hesperonoe complanata (Johnson, 1901) (source of synonymy)
Kebuita glabra (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Asclerocheilus glabrus (Ehlers, 1887) (basis of record)
Lumbriconereis bidens Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Lumbrineris bidens Ehlers, 1887 (source of synonymy)
Lumbriconereis floridana Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Lumbrineris floridana Ehlers, 1887 (source of synonymy)
Lumbriconereis robusta Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Scoletoma robusta (Ehlers, 1887) (source of synonymy)
Lumbrineris bidens Ehlers, 1887 (basis of record)
Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (additional source)
Lumbrineris robusta Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Scoletoma robusta (Ehlers, 1887) (basis of record)
Maldane collariceps Augener, 1906 accepted as Metasychis collariceps (Augener, 1926) (source of synonymy)
Megalomma bioculata [auct. misspelling] accepted as Acromegalomma bioculatum (Ehlers, 1887) (basis of record)
Megalomma clara (Chamberlin, 1919) accepted as Acromegalomma modestum (Quatrefages, 1866) (basis of record)
Megalomma coloratum (Chamberlin, 1919) accepted as Acromegalomma coloratum (Chamberlin, 1919) (additional source)
Megalomma lobifera (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Acromegalomma lobiferum (Ehlers, 1887) (basis of record)
Megalomma parva (Chamberlin, 1919) accepted as Megalomma splendida (Moore, 1905) accepted as Acromegalomma splendidum (Moore, 1905) (source of synonymy)
Megalomma splendida (Moore, 1905) accepted as Acromegalomma splendidum (Moore, 1905) (basis of record)
Megalomma vesiculosum (Montagu, 1813) accepted as Acromegalomma vesiculosum (Montagu, 1813) (additional source)
Myxicola infundibulum (Montagu, 1808) (additional source)
Myxicola monacis Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Myxicola infundibulum (Montagu, 1808) (source of synonymy)
Myxicola pacifica Johnson, 1901 (source of synonymy)
Nainereis nannobranchia Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Naineris dendritica (Kinberg, 1867) (additional source)
Nereis (Nereis) riisei Grube, 1857 accepted as Nereis riisei Grube, 1857 (additional source)
Nereis bicruciata Augener, 1906 accepted as Nereis (Nereis) riisei Grube, 1857 accepted as Nereis riisei Grube, 1857 (source of synonymy)
Nereis notomacula Treadwell, 1914 accepted as Platynereis bicanaliculata (Baird, 1863) (source of synonymy)
Oncoscolex (Eumenia) heterochaetus Augener, 1906 accepted as Asclerocheilus glabrus (Ehlers, 1887) (source of synonymy)
Pista brevibranchia Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Pista brevibranchiata Moore, 1923 (source of synonymy)
Pista brevibranchia Caullery, 1915 (source of synonymy)
Pista brevibranchiata Moore, 1923 (basis of record)
Pista fimbriata Moore, 1923 in Loi, 1980 accepted as Pista brevibranchiata Moore, 1923 (source of synonymy)
Pista fratrella Chamberlin, 1919 (additional source)
Potamilla clara Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Acromegalomma modestum (Quatrefages, 1866) (new combination reference)
Potamilla colorata Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Acromegalomma coloratum (Chamberlin, 1919) (additional source)
Protula submedia Augener, 1906 (additional source)
Pseudopotamilla anoculata Moore, 1905 accepted as Acromegalomma splendidum (Moore, 1905) (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla brevibranchiata Moore, 1905 accepted as Pseudopotamilla occelata Moore, 1905 (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla intermedia Moore, 1905 (basis of record)
Pseudopotamilla macrops Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Pseudopotamilla intermedia Moore, 1905 (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla occelata Moore, 1905 (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla occelata Moore, 1905 (basis of record)
Pseudopotamilla oligophthalmos (Grube, 1878) (status source)
Pseudopotamilla panamica Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Acromegalomma vesiculosum (Montagu, 1813) (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla paurops Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Pseudopotamilla occelata Moore, 1905 (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla splendida Moore, 1905 accepted as Acromegalomma splendidum (Moore, 1905) (source of synonymy)
Serpula nannoides Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Serpula columbiana Johnson, 1901 (redescription)
Spio mimus Chamberlin, 1920 accepted as Spio theeli (Söderström, 1920) (source of synonymy)
Uncinereis agassizi (Ehlers, 1868) accepted as Platynereis bicanaliculata (Baird, 1863) (basis of record)
Uncinereis subita Chamberlin, 1919 accepted as Platynereis bicanaliculata (Baird, 1863) (source of synonymy)
Pseudopotamilla oculifera (Leidy) has been synonymised with P. reniformis in the past. No recent re-evaluation ... [details]
Hartman (1938) mentions: "Chamberlin's name is pre-occupied by Caullery (1915, p. 76)". Leontovich & Jirkov ... [details]
Oncoscolex (Eumenia) heterochaetus Augener, 1906 is placed by Hartman (1938: 14) as junior synonym of Eumenia ... [details]
Current taxon junior synonym of species listed. Frank et al. (1985: 40) resumed the systematic history of the ... [details]
The type material of the species seems to be lost or it was never deposited. It is not at the Smithsonian ... [details]
The type material of the species seems to be lost or it was never deposited. It is not at the Smithsonian ... [details]
Fauchald (1992:132) reports there is no type material of Leodice enteles at MCZ. However, earlier Hartman (1938: 95 ... [details]