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Johnston, George. (1838). Miscellanea Zoologica. III. — The British Ariciadae. Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Edinburgh. 2: 63-73, plates II-III.
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Johnston, George
1838
Miscellanea Zoologica. III. — The British Ariciadae.
Magazine of Zoology and Botany, Edinburgh
2: 63-73, plates II-III
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)
[None. Introduction as follows:]
The Annelides, say MM. Audouin and Milne-Edwards, which we group round the genus Aricia of Savigny, and of which we form the fifth family in the order Errantes, present very considerable dissimilarities in their external structure, — a circumstance which ought not to surprise us, for whenever organs, hecause of their minor developement, become of slight importance in the economy of the animal, and are about to be obliterated more or less entirely from its anatomy, we find them to vary proportionably in their forms. Such is the case with the exterior appendages of the Ariciadae, a small family which intervenes to smooth the abruptness of the passage between the more typical An. Errantes, and the Annelides of the orders Terricolae and Tubicolae.
It is probably from this discrepancy among them that, up to this time, no naturalist has seized upon the characters which seem to us to unite them in one, but every one has scattered its members among different groups. Several of them have been considered as related to the Earth-worms, others to the Nereides, and a certain number have been collected together by M. de Blainville in his family "Nereiscoles." The end which that zoologist had in view in the establishment of that family is very nearly the same which has led us to unite in one distinct group the Annelides in question; and it is probable that if Blainville had personally observed a greater number of species, his opinions relative to the composition of the family would have been more in unison with ours than they happen to be.
The Annelides, say MM. Audouin and Milne-Edwards, which we group round the genus Aricia of Savigny, and of which we form the fifth family in the order Errantes, present very considerable dissimilarities in their external structure, — a circumstance which ought not to surprise us, for whenever organs, hecause of their minor developement, become of slight importance in the economy of the animal, and are about to be obliterated more or less entirely from its anatomy, we find them to vary proportionably in their forms. Such is the case with the exterior appendages of the Ariciadae, a small family which intervenes to smooth the abruptness of the passage between the more typical An. Errantes, and the Annelides of the orders Terricolae and Tubicolae.
It is probably from this discrepancy among them that, up to this time, no naturalist has seized upon the characters which seem to us to unite them in one, but every one has scattered its members among different groups. Several of them have been considered as related to the Earth-worms, others to the Nereides, and a certain number have been collected together by M. de Blainville in his family "Nereiscoles." The end which that zoologist had in view in the establishment of that family is very nearly the same which has led us to unite in one distinct group the Annelides in question; and it is probable that if Blainville had personally observed a greater number of species, his opinions relative to the composition of the family would have been more in unison with ours than they happen to be.
British Islands
Systematics, Taxonomy
Leucodore Johnston, 1838 accepted as Polydora Bosc, 1802 (original description)
Leucodore ciliatus Johnston, 1838 accepted as Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838) (original description)
Leucodorum [misspelling for Leucodore] accepted as Polydora Bosc, 1802 (original description)
Nerine Johnston, 1838 accepted as Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 (original description)
Nerine coniocephala Johnston, 1838 accepted as Scolelepis foliosa (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) represented as Scolelepis (Scolelepis) foliosa (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) (original description)
Tubulipora obelia Johnston, 1838 accepted as Diplosolen obelia (Johnston, 1838) accepted as Diplosolen obelium (Johnston, 1838) (original description)
Leucodore ciliatus Johnston, 1838 accepted as Polydora ciliata (Johnston, 1838) (original description)
Leucodorum [misspelling for Leucodore] accepted as Polydora Bosc, 1802 (original description)
Nerine Johnston, 1838 accepted as Scolelepis Blainville, 1828 (original description)
Nerine coniocephala Johnston, 1838 accepted as Scolelepis foliosa (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) represented as Scolelepis (Scolelepis) foliosa (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) (original description)
Tubulipora obelia Johnston, 1838 accepted as Diplosolen obelia (Johnston, 1838) accepted as Diplosolen obelium (Johnston, 1838) (original description)
Etymology
Named Leucodore as a Latinization of the family name of John Whitgift, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, who was ... [details]
Nomenclature
Johnston, 1838 assigned his earlier Spio viridis Johnston, 1828 to his new genus Nerinides, giving it the ... [details]
Type locality
Berwick Bay (Berwick upon Tweed), Northumberland, England (near the border with Scotland). Burrowing in the mud in ... [details]
