Hi Vasily and all,
A little bit of additional information on Polydora hoplura in New Zealand that may be of interest to Polydora workers. I am quoted pers. comm. as saying that P. hoplura in NZ never have palp pigment. This is true - I did write that to Vasily, and it is mostly correct still! However, I had forgotten that in one relatively modern collection from the northern North Island I had seen "Polydora hoplura" from on Japanese oysters with weak dark pigment blotches on the palps. This was 2004, but I had first described P. hoplura from native Atrina mussels of central NZ in 1975, nearly 30 years previously. What is going on? Possibly the 2004 northern worms were a second different genetic population that had arrived with the oysters. At the time I thought these worms might have been the Japanese P. uncinata if it was indeed distinct (now formally synonymised by Radashevsky & Migotto*). The Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas had only just arrived in northern New Zealand by 1971, and even now is still mostly only in the northern North island, at least as significant intertidal reefs of it. Nobody knows how often new arrivals of immigrant worms like P. hoplura occur. Certainly with the hull-fouling Hydroides elegans serpulid, which is much easier to see, arrivals are going on repeatedly on ships coming to New Zealand.
On the question of year dates for Naples Sedentaria described by Claparède - I am changing the dates of about 40 species at WoRMS to 1868. This 1868 book version of Claparède was only digitised in 2015. Whether earlier workers knew of it would depend on where they lived and how big their libraries were. The publication history of the versions and parts is very confusing so it is great that Vasily has sorted it out.
(* This paper was efirst online in 2016 but does not have a Zoobank registration so Radashevsky, Choi & Gambi 2017 in Zootaxa in June has priority for taxonomic actions)
Cheers,
Geoff
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Subject: [Annelida] Polydora hoplura in Marine Biodiversity - free e-Offprint will only be available for four weeks
Dear Annelideans,
Let us show you our new publication on the morphology and biology of one of the spionid polychaetes:
Radashevsky, V.I. & Migotto, A.E. (2017) First report of the polychaete Polydora hoplura (Annelida: Spionidae) from North and South America and Asian Pacific. Marine Biodiversity, 47 (3), 859–868.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0515-0
The following comment provided in this paper may be interesting not only for the spionid students but also to others dealing with the polychaetes described by Claparède (1868):
Taxonomic remarks The date of the original description of P. hoplura is 1868, but is most often incorrectly cited as either 1869 or 1870. The first part of Claparède’s famous monograph Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples, comprising errant annelids, Annélides Errantes (Claparède 1868b; published in the Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 1868, t. XIX, pt. 2), and the second part, comprising sedentary annelids, Annélides Sédentaires, including spionids, Spiodiens (Claparède 1869; published in the Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 1869, t. XX, pt. 1), were first published in one book in 1868 (Claparède 1868a). The 1868 book has the note “Ce travail est tiré des Mémoires de la Société de Physique, tomes XIX et XX”. In 1870, Annélides Errantes and Annélides Sédentaires were published as two separate books (Claparède 1870b, c), each with explanatory reference to the corresponding issue of the Mémoires. Claparède also provided a Supplement to Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples, which was published in the Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève, 1870, t. XX, pt. 2 (Claparède 1870a), and also as a book (Claparède 1870d). Remarkably, some books (Claparède 1870b, c) keep the same pagination as corresponding issues in Mémoires, but other (Claparède 1868a, 1870d) have original pagination on top of pages and also provide corresponding Mémoires’ pagination on bottom of pages in parentheses.
Claparède’s 1868 book publication was mentioned in the Zoological Record for the year 1868 by Wright (1869: 535) who commented “This work is extracted from the ‘Mémoires de la Société de Physique de Genève,’ tomes xix. & xx., with the addition of a plate (pl. 32), which is reprinted from the Transactions of the Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali.” Wright (1869: 535) also noted that “Two hundred and twenty-one species of Chetopod Annelids are enumerated as inhabiting the Gulf of Naples. Diagnosis, accompanied by elaborate anatomical details, are given of each species.” Consequently, the publication date for P. hoplura is 1868, the same as for the spionids Nerine auriseta, Nerine sarsiana, Polydora agassizii, Polydora antennata, Prionospio malmgreni, Spio fuliginosus, Spio mecznikowianus, and many other new species first described by Claparède in the 1868 book. The 1868 book was cited by Claparède (1870a, d), de Saussure (1871), Lo Bianco (1893), and also by McIntosh (1915a), but it was overlooked by subsequent authors, including Hartman (1951), Hartmann-Schröder (1971, 1996), and Fauchald (1977), in favour of citing the journal issues.
