Published December 15, 2025
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Nereis Linnaeus 1758
Authors/Creators
- 1. Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-On-Sea, Odisha 761002, India
- 2. Department of Marine Ecology, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California 22860, Mexico
Description
Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Type species. Nereis pelagica Linnaeus, 1758
Remarks. Bakken et al. (2022) and Wilson et al. (2023) developed a comprehensive diagnosis of the genus, which is followed in the present study. However, Nereis is a broadly heterogeneous genus, far from being solved, as no attempts have been made to define it accurately, and species richness continues to increase. Informal groupings have been proposed elsewhere (see Salazar-Vallejo et al. 2021), where a single member is listed and size-dependent features are used; nevertheless, this approach may result in troublesome designations (see Discussion).
Notes
Published as part of Pradhan, Jyoshna, Villalobos-Guerrero, Tulio F. & Mohapatra, Anil, 2025, Description of two new species of nereidids (Annelida: Nereididae) from West Bengal, India, Bay of Bengal, pp. 335-348 in Zootaxa 5729 (2) on page 341, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/17936063
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Phyllodocida
- Family
- Nereididae
- Genus
- Nereis
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nereis Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Pradhan, Villalobos-Guerrero & Mohapatra, 2025
References
- Bakken, T., Glasby, C. J., Santos, C. S. G. & Wilson, R. S. (2022) Nereididae Blainville, 1818. In: Purschke, G., Boggemann, M. & Westheide, W (Eds.), Handbook of Zoology Pleistoannelida, Errantia, II. De Gruyter, Osnabruck, pp. 259-307. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110647167-010
- Wilson, R. S., Glasby, C. J. & Bakken, T. (2023) The Nereididae (Annelida) - diagnoses, descriptions and a key to the genera. ZooKeys, 1182, 35-134. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1182.104258
- Salazar-Vallejo, S. I., de Leon-Gonzalez, J. A. & Conde-Vela, V. M. (2021) Revision of the species confused with " Nereis falsa " de Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida, Nereididae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 779, 1-70. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.779.1579