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Nereiphylla pusilla (Claparède, 1870)

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Anaitis pusilla Claparède, 1870 (original combination); Paranaitis pusilla (Claparède, 1870); Phyllodoce pusilla (Claparède, 1870); Phyllodoce (Nereiphylla) pusilla (Claparède, 1870); Phyllodoce nana Saint-Joseph, 1906; Phyllodoce (Nereiphylla) nana Saint-Joseph, 1906; Genetyllis nana (Saint Joseph, 1906)

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in May 1990 (Pleijel & Mackie, 1993)

 

Distribution

"Mediterranean Sea: France; Italy (Gulf of Naples; Sicily); northern Africa. Atlantic Ocean: Canary Islands." (Read & Fauchald, 2021)

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève. 20(2): 365-542.

 

Other references:

Arvanitidis, Christos. (2000). Polychaete fauna of the Aegean Sea: inventory and new information. Bulletin of Marine Science 66(1): 73-96. [automatic download]

Campoy, A. (1982). Fauna de Anelidos Poliquetos de la Penmsula Ibérica. Publnes Biol. Univ. Navarra, (ser. Zool) 7: 1-781.

Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes Errantes. Faune Fr. 5 : 1-494.

Hartman, O. (1959). Catalogue of the polychaetous annelids of the world. Part 1. Occ. Pap. Allan Hancock Fdn. 23 : 1-353.

Hollier, John. (2022). The species described by René-édouard Claparède. Part 1: Animalia. Revue suisse de Zoologie 129(1): 155-165. https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0070

Pleijel, Fredrik and Mackie, Andrew S. Y. (1993). Nereiphylla pusilla (Polycheta, Phyllodocidae) rediscovered and redescribed from Sicily. Vie et Milieu 43(2-3): 155-160.

Read, G. and Fauchald, K. (eds.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Nereiphylla pusilla (Claparède, 1870). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130658 on 2021-10-29

Saint-Joseph, Arthur d'Anthoine de. (1906). Les Annélides Polychètes des côtes de France (Océan et côtes de Provence). Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris. (series 9) 3: 145-258.

 

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