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WoRMS taxon details
original description
McIntosh, W.C. [M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426
page(s): 438; note:
Actually the first description is 1914 but McIntosh unintentionally mentioned enough about M elisabethae in 1885: 438 while describing Challenger specimens of M maculata Webster to elevate the name fr...
Actually the first description is 1914 but McIntosh unintentionally mentioned enough about M elisabethae in 1885: 438 while describing Challenger specimens of M maculata Webster to elevate the name from the nomen nudum it should have been at that time.
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  [request]
additional source
de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. <em>World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.</em> (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. <em>Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8.</em> vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Mackie, Anderew S Y; Pleijel, Fredrik. (1995). A review of the Melinna cristata - species Group (Polychaeta: Ampharetidae) in the northeastern Atlantic. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 92 (supplement): 103-124.
page(s): 111; note: redescription and designation of lectotype [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Gunton, Laetitia M.; Zhang, William; Kupriyanova, Elena K.; Hutchings, Pat A. (2023). New species of <em>Melinna</em> (Melinnidae, Annelida) from the Australian abyss with comments on <em>M. albicincta</em>, <em>M. cristata</em> and <em>M. elisabethae</em>. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 75(3): 125-154., available online at https://journals.australian.museum/gunton-2023-rec-aust-mus-753-125154/
page(s): 143, figures 13–15; note: Description and record for specimens from Tees Bay, England [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
McIntosh, W. C. L.; St, A. N. (1914). Notes from the Gatty Marine On the ventral furrows of the lesser rorqual (Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Lacépède). 2. On some of the species of Prionospio, Malmgren. 3. On the british Amphictenidae. 4. On the british Ampharetidae. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 13: 77-110., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51229570
page(s): 106-108; note:
Actually the first description is 1914 but McIntosh had unintentionally mentioned enough about M elisabethae in 1885: 438 while describing Challenger specimens of M maculata Webster to elevate the nam...
Actually the first description is 1914 but McIntosh had unintentionally mentioned enough about M elisabethae in 1885: 438 while describing Challenger specimens of M maculata Webster to elevate the name from the nomen nudum it should have been at that time.
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Lectotype BMNH BMNH.1921.5.1.3711, geounit Saint Andrews Bay Scotland [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated but evidently Melinna elisabethae is named for McIntosh's mother Eliza or Elizabeth (note the 'z' spelling) as he states (1914: p.106) that "specimens of this species were first obtained in Britain by my mother in the stomachs of haddocks ..." The 'z' was permissible spelling in Latin, if not common, so it is not clear why McIntosh used the 's' spelling. [details]
Lectotype Designated Mackie & Pleijel (1995: 111) BMNH.1921.5.1.3711, locality Saint Andrews [details]
Publication date McIntosh (1922: 86) believed that the publication date of Melinna elisabethae was 1914. In this he was wrong according to Mackie & Pleijel (1995: 111) who treat a nomen-nudum-style mention in the Challenger report 1885 record for M. maculata from the Caribbean as having sufficient indications of the nature of M elisabethae to justify changing the date of establishment to decades earlier in 1885 rather than 1914. They do this without an explanation and without making clear that McIntosh's 1885 mention was not intended to establish a new species. Instead they refer to the unfortunate mention euphemistically as "the neglected original description". It is likely both that McIntosh had forgotten the single 1885 in-text-flow name mention (otherwise referred to in text as "the species from St Andrews") by 1914 and 1922 (the British monograph), and had at the time in 1885 made a mistake in mentioning a name when it was not yet described. The name included should have been deleted and there would have been no premature publication. Possibly the earlier date may have an effect on synonymies. [details]
Type locality St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, from stomach of a haddock, geolocation estimate only, 56.3474°, -2.7949° [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: Eastern Bradelle Valley), downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary; lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
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