Hediste Malmgren 1867
- Dataset
- Revision of the species confused with “ Nereis falsa ” de Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida, Nereididae)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Phyllodocida
- family
- Nereididae
- genus
- Hediste
discussion
Remarks Smith (1959), after comparing the types, concluded that H. lighti was a junior synonym of H. limnicola. They differ in pigmentation in living specimens, H. limnicola being reddish, whereas H. lighti is transparent. A more detailed comparison is needed to confirm this synonymy. Day (1967) described Nereis gilchristi based on a single small specimen (8 mm long, 40 chaetigers) collected in South Africa. He indicated that it has only two notopodial ligules in anterior chaetigers, which is an important difference and deserves a separate assessment when assigning it to a genus. The key above should be used cautiously because the status of the type species must be clarified, since there are two cryptic species in the Baltic Sea (Röhner et al. 1997; Virgilio et al. 2006; Audzijonyte et al. 2008), and some Mediterranean and Black Sea forms (Virgilio et al. 2009; Cossu et al. 2012) might necessitate the reestablishment of some names currently regarded as junior synonyms.
Name
- Homonyms
- Hediste Malmgren 1867