MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Praxillella Verrill, 1881

WoRMS taxon details

Praxillella Verrill, 1881

AphiaID

129360 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129360)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Praxilla praetermissa Malmgren, 1865 accepted as Praxillella praetermissa (Malmgren, 1865)

Parent

Euclymeninae Arwidsson, 1906

Original name

Praxillella Verrill, 1881

Synonymised names

Eupraxillella Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Praxilla Malmgren, 1865 · unaccepted (replaced junior homonym)

Pseudoclymene Arwidsson, 1906 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Praxillella abyssorum (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Praxillella affinis (M. Sars in G.O. Sars, 1872)
Species Praxillella antarctica (Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, secondary homonymy)
Species Praxillella assimilis (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Praxillella bransfieldensis Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989
Species Praxillella capensis (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Praxillella elongata (Webster, 1879)
Species Praxillella gracilis (M. Sars, 1861)
Species Praxillella kerguelensis (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Praxillella lophoseta (Orlandi, 1898)
Species Praxillella monroi Hartman, 1978
Species Praxillella occidentalis (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Praxillella pacifica Berkeley, 1929
Species Praxillella praetermissa (Malmgren, 1865)
Species Praxillella quadrilobata (M. Sars, 1856)
Species Praxillella tricirrata Moore, 1907
Species Praxillella trifila Hartman, 1960
Species Praxillella antarctica Arwidsson, 1911 accepted as Praxillella kerguelensis (McIntosh, 1885) (subjective synonym)
Species Praxillella insecta (Ehlers, 1905) accepted as Euclymene insecta (Ehlers, 1904) (superseded recombination)
Species Praxillella lankesteri (McIntosh, 1885) accepted as Clymenura lankesteri (McIntosh, 1885) (replaced recombination)
Species Praxillella challengeriae (McIntosh, 1885) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, original is fragment only, probably indeterminable)
Species Praxillella kefersteini Kinberg, 1866 (uncertain > nomen dubium, indeterminable fide Hartman (1959))
Species Praxillella nigrita (Ehlers, 1874) (uncertain > nomen dubium, nomen dubium, indeterminable fide Hartman (1959))

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Verrill, A.E. (1881). New England Annelida. Part I. Historical sketch, with annotated lists of the species hitherto recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 4: 285-324., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7476851
page(s): 298; note: Replacement name for Praxilla Malmgren 1865 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Praxillella Verrill, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129360 on 2025-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Bellan, Gérard

2005-04-11 09:30:41Z

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Cuvelier, Daphne

2008-03-04 06:49:09Z

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Decock, Wim

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

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Fauchald, Kristian

2019-11-21 21:43:21Z

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Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description Verrill, A.E. (1881). New England Annelida. Part I. Historical sketch, with annotated lists of the species hitherto recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 4: 285-324., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7476851
page(s): 298; note: Replacement name for Praxilla Malmgren 1865 [details]

original description (of Praxilla Malmgren, 1865) Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part two of three]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(2): 181-192., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339457
page(s): 191 [details]

original description (of Eupraxillella Hartmann-Schröder & Rosenfeldt, 1989) Hartmann-Schröder, G. and Rosenfeldt, Pongchai 1989. Die Polychaeten der Polarstern-Reise ANT III/2 in die Antarktis 1984. Teil 2: Cirratulidae bis Serpulidae. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut, 86: 65-106.
page(s): 76-77 [details]

original description (of Pseudoclymene Arwidsson, 1906) Arwidsson, Ivar. (1906). Studien über die skandinavischen und arktischen Maldaniden nebst Zusammenstellung der übrigen bisher bekannten Arten dieser Familie. Inaugural-Dissertation zur erlangung der Doktorwürde. Der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultät zu Upsala, Upsala Universitet, Upsala [sic]. 1-308. Plates 1-12. [published 1906 or at latest 2 Feb 1907]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/39358
page(s): 235 [details]

Other

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 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. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors