Synonymy of Polydora websteri

(Relevant original names and New Zealand records only)

Polydora websteri as:    Polydora websteri
  Name used as: New entity (basionym) by:  Hartman 1943 (pages 70-72, illus. Fig.1a-g.)
  Record locality: Milford Harbour, Connecticut
  Remarks: Described from worms found in oysters (species unstated). See also redescription of Radashevsky. Hartman was proposing a replacement name for P. caeca Webster, a homonym. However subsequently an ICZN decision has deemed Polydora websteri is a different species.
  [Basionym for this record: Polydora websteri Hartman 1943]

Polydora websteri as:    Polydora websteri
  Name used as: Material-based revision or review by:  Radashevsky 1999 (pages 107-112, illus. Fig.1A-F.)
  Record locality:
  Remarks: Redescription of Los Angeles County Museum material deposited by Hartman.
  [Basionym for this record: Polydora websteri Hartman 1943]

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