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Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897 
AphiaID: 326053

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Opheliidae (Family) > Opheliinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Thoracophelia furcifera Ehlers, 1897 (type by monotypy)
Parent Opheliinae
Synonymised
taxa
  Euzonus Grube, 1866 (replaced junior homonym)
Euzonus (Euzonus) (parent is replaced homonym)
Euzonus (Thoracophelia) (Ehlers, 1897) (superseded combination)
Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984 (subjective synonym)
Pectinophelia Hartman, 1938 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Ehlers, E. 1897. Polychaeten. Hamburger Magalhaensische Sammelreise, 1897: 1-148.
page(s): 101 [details]


basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source: Law, Chris; Dorgan, Kelly M.; Rouse, Greg W. 2013. Validation of three sympatric Thoracophelia species (Annelida: Opheliidae) from Dillon Beach, California using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. Zootaxa 3608(1): 67-74 , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.4 [details]

status source: Blake, James A. 2011. Revalidation of the genus Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897, replacing Euzonus Grube, 1866 (Polychaeta: Opheliidae), junior homonym of Euzonus Menge, 1854 (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), together with a literature summary and updated listing of Thoracophelia species [Correspondence]. Zootaxa 2807: 65–68. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02807p068.pdf [details]

from synonym: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, 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. 214-231 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1866. Eine neue Annelida, zunaechst einer nordischen, in der Naehe der Ophelien und Scalibregmen zu stellenden Annelide, Euzonus arcticus. Schles.gesellschaft fur vaterlandische cultur Breslau Jahresber., 43: 64-65. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Neave, S.A. (ed) 1939. Nomenclator zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935.
page(s): 384 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Brewer, Michael S. ; Sierwald, Petra ; Bond, Jason E. 2011: A generic homonym concerning chordeumatid millipedes (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) and ophellid [sic] worms (Annelida: Polycheata [sic]). Zootaxa 2744: 65–68. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z02744p068f.pdf [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hartman, O. 1956. Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 109(2): 239-310. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hutchings, Patricia A. and Murray, Anna 1984. Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, 36: 1-119.
page(s): 75 [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 107 [details] [view taxon]


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 Species Thoracophelia arcticus (Grube, 1866)
Species Thoracophelia bibrancha (Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
Species Thoracophelia dillonensis (Hartman, 1938)
Species Thoracophelia ezoensis Okuda, 1936
Species Thoracophelia flabellifera Ziegelmeier, 1955
Species Thoracophelia furcifera Ehlers, 1897
Species Thoracophelia longiseta (Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
Species Thoracophelia mucronata (Treadwell, 1914)
Species Thoracophelia otagoensis (Probert, 1976)
Species Thoracophelia williamsi (Hartman, 1938)
Species Thoracophelia yasudai Okuda, 1934
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326053
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-14 12:50:56Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2011-02-02 20:14:06Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326053 on 2013-05-24
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