The present study redescribes four species of Neanthes Kinberg, 1865 (Nereididae de Blainville, 1818) based on their type specimens collected from different worldwide localities: chilkaensis (Southern, 1921) India, N. galetae (Fauchald, 1977) Panama, helenae (Kinberg, 1865) St Helena Island, and mossambica (Day, 1957) Mozambique. morphology the types was re-examined for first time after were or...