Nomenclature: Blainville (1825: 443) in a long dictionary entry recombined many disparate ... for taxon Myriana longissima Savigny, 1822

Note "Nomenclature: Blainville (1825: 443) in a long dictionary entry recombined many disparate polychaetes into his very broad concept of Nereis. In this dictionary he takes Myriana longissima Savigny, 1822 and recombines it as Nereis longissima. He is open about this recombination, but has no comment on reasons for not continuing using Myriana." for taxon Myriana longissima Savigny, 1822 has been added by Geoffrey Read via the webinterface on 2024-07-25T23:43:28+00:00