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Marphysa simplex Treadwell, 1922 
AphiaID: 341270

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Marphysa (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym, junior secondary homonym)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Marphysa mossambica (Peters, 1854)
Rank Species
Parent Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865
Sources  original description: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1922. Leodicidae from Fiji and Samoa. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication, 312: 127-170. [details]

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

basis of record: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details]

source of synonymy: Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]

source of synonymy: Fauchald, K. 1987. Redescription of the genus Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100(2): 375-380. [details]

status source: Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings Pat, A. (2010). A new species of Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865. Zootaxa 2352: 29–45. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02352p045f.pdf [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, Fiji Islands [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341270
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-25 08:16:00Z  created  Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-05-12 05:44:10Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Marphysa simplex Treadwell, 1922. 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=341270 on 2013-05-25
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