WoRMS name details
Mayeria Verrill, 1900
597639 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:597639)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym, junior homonym)
Genus
Staurocephalus gregaricus Mayer, 1900 accepted as Eunice fucata Ehlers, 1887 (type by original designation)
- Species Mayeria gregarica (Mayer, 1900) accepted as Eunice fucata Ehlers, 1887 (superseded recombination of subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 650 (footnote) [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 650 (footnote) [details] Available for editors
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Etymology Mayeria genus is clearly named after the male Alfred Mayer who had described Staurocephalus gregaricus. It is not known...
Homonymy Mayeria Verrill, 1900 in Annelida is an unreplaced homonym to Mayeria Bellardi, 1873, a fossil gastropod genus currently in...
Taxonomy Verrill's Mayeria gregarica swimming forms are the reproductive stolons of Eunice fucata. Verrill described them as...
Etymology Mayeria genus is clearly named after the male Alfred Mayer who had described Staurocephalus gregaricus. It is not known why Verrill used Mayeria gregarica, which is equally clearly a feminine combination, but perhaps simply for euphony, although Mayeri gregaricus would have been suitable also. [details]
Homonymy Mayeria Verrill, 1900 in Annelida is an unreplaced homonym to Mayeria Bellardi, 1873, a fossil gastropod genus currently in...
Homonymy Mayeria Verrill, 1900 in Annelida is an unreplaced homonym to Mayeria Bellardi, 1873, a fossil gastropod genus currently in family Melongenidae. However Mayeria Verrill is not in use as it is a name for a reproductive stolon from a Eunice and is thus a junior synonym of Eunice, so it does not need a replacement name. [details]
Taxonomy Verrill's Mayeria gregarica swimming forms are the reproductive stolons of Eunice fucata. Verrill described them as...
Taxonomy Verrill's Mayeria gregarica swimming forms are the reproductive stolons of Eunice fucata. Verrill described them as follows: "The curious free-swimming, gregarious species recently admirably described and illustrated by A. G. Mayer (Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, xxvi, No. 1, with 3 plates, 1900) as Staurocephalus gregaricus, does not really belong to that genus, but is the type of a new genus for which I propose the name Mayeria. This genus is characterized by the presence of a single pair of unsegmented organs (palpi) on the front of the head [this was actually the posterior end], and by the unsegmented dorsal cirri. The type is without antennae and eyes. The jaws, also, differ considerably from those of typical Staurocephahus. Mayeria gregarica, the type species, was found swimming at the surface off the Tortugas, Fla., in vast numbers nearly at the last quarter of the moon, from July 1 to July 10, for breeding purposes. This species will almost certainly be found to occur off the Bermudas, at about the same date. " [details]
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Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 650 (footnote) [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 322; note: with Eunice Cuvier, 1817 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 650 (footnote) [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 322; note: with Eunice Cuvier, 1817 [details] Available for editors
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Etymology Mayeria genus is clearly named after the male Alfred Mayer who had described Staurocephalus gregaricus. It is not known why Verrill used Mayeria gregarica, which is equally clearly a feminine combination, but perhaps simply for euphony, although Mayeri gregaricus would have been suitable also. [details]Grammatical gender Feminine, although Alfred Mayer was a man (see etymology) [details]
Homonymy Mayeria Verrill, 1900 in Annelida is an unreplaced homonym to Mayeria Bellardi, 1873, a fossil gastropod genus currently in family Melongenidae. However Mayeria Verrill is not in use as it is a name for a reproductive stolon from a Eunice and is thus a junior synonym of Eunice, so it does not need a replacement name. [details]
Taxonomy Verrill's Mayeria gregarica swimming forms are the reproductive stolons of Eunice fucata. Verrill described them as follows: "The curious free-swimming, gregarious species recently admirably described and illustrated by A. G. Mayer (Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, xxvi, No. 1, with 3 plates, 1900) as Staurocephalus gregaricus, does not really belong to that genus, but is the type of a new genus for which I propose the name Mayeria. This genus is characterized by the presence of a single pair of unsegmented organs (palpi) on the front of the head [this was actually the posterior end], and by the unsegmented dorsal cirri. The type is without antennae and eyes. The jaws, also, differ considerably from those of typical Staurocephahus. Mayeria gregarica, the type species, was found swimming at the surface off the Tortugas, Fla., in vast numbers nearly at the last quarter of the moon, from July 1 to July 10, for breeding purposes. This species will almost certainly be found to occur off the Bermudas, at about the same date. " [details]
