WoRMS taxon details
Malmiana Strand, 1942
AphiaID: 116935
AphiaID: 116935
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Clitellata (Class) > Hirudinea (Subclass) > Euhirudinea (Infraclass) > Rhynchobdellida (Order) > Piscicolidae (Family) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Accepted name | Heptacyclus | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Parent | Piscicolidae | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Hirudinea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 234-235 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] source of synonymy: Williams, J. I., & Burreson, E. M. (2006). Phylogeny of the fish leeches (Oligochaeta, Hirudinida, Piscicolidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes and morphology. Zoologica Scripta, 35(6), 627-639. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Malmiana brunnea Johansson, 1929 accepted as Heptacyclus brunneus (Johansson, 1896) Species Malmiana bubali Srivastava, 1966 accepted as Janusion bubali (Srivastava, 1966) Species Malmiana buthi Burreson & Kalman, 2006 accepted as Heptacyclus buthi Burreson & Kalman, 2006 Species Malmiana diminuta Burreson, 1977 accepted as Janusion diminuta (Burreson, 1977) Species Malmiana nuda Richardson, 1970 accepted as Janusion nuda (Richardson, 1970) Species Malmiana philotherma Sawayer, Lawler & Overstreet, 1975 accepted as Janusion philotherma (Sawayer, Lawler & Overstreet, 1975) Species Malmiana scorpii Malm, 1863 accepted as Heptacyclus scorpii (Malm, 1863) Species Malmiana viridis Burreson, 1977 accepted as Janusion virida (Burreson, 1977) Species Malmiana yorki Srivastava, 1966 accepted as Janusion yorki (Srivastava, 1966) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Synonymy: A few generic level changes can be proposed from our analysis and are summarized in Table 4. Heptacyclus virgatus, the type and only species in the genus, grouped within the genus Malmiana, rendering Malmiana paraphyletic. The monotypic Heptacyclus has priority; therefore all species of Malmiana should be transferred to the genus Heptacyclus.* This synonymy has been proposed by Epshtein (1967), but was done so in a footnote without explanation, and has not been widely accepted. The synonymy was also suggested by Sawyer (1986), who stated that Heptacyclus is ‘inadequately distinguished from Malmiana.’ It was again suggested in the recent description of a new species of Malmiana (Burreson & Kalman 2006) where the only difference stated between the genera is the overall larger size of Heptacyclus virgatus compared with species of Malmiana. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:116935 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Kolb, J. (2013). Malmiana Strand, 1942. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=116935 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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