WoRMS name details
Leodamas cylindrifer (Ehlers, 1904)
934373 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:934373)
unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded subsequent combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Scoloplos cylindrifer Ehlers, 1904) Ehlers, E. [Ernst]. (1904). Neuseeländische Anneliden. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse.</em> Neue Folge 3(1): 1-80, 9 plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46755553
page(s): 45-46, plate VI figs. 16-19 [details]
page(s): 45-46, plate VI figs. 16-19 [details]
Taxonomy Blake (2017: 50,51) transferred Scoloplos cylindrifer to Leodamas as a new combination. He has no formal description or...
Taxonomy Blake (2017: 50,51) transferred Scoloplos cylindrifer to Leodamas as a new combination. He has no formal description or occurrence record, and did not examine specimens, but in a discussion on Leodamas he presents a long discussion on the taxonomic history and generic placement of S. cylindrifer Ehlers, a common and distinctive species (branched branchiae) in New Zealand and Australia. His diagnosis of Scoloplos versus Leodamas hinges on relatively minor differences. These are that in Scoloplos thoracic neurochaetae include blunt, inconspicuous uncini, few in number, not in distinct rows, abdominal neuropodia with embedded, non-projecting acicula. The transfer to Leodamas by Blake was rejected as premature by Zhadan (2020). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Leodamas cylindrifer (Ehlers, 1904). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934373 on 2024-04-16
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original description
(of Scoloplos cylindrifer Ehlers, 1904) Ehlers, E. [Ernst]. (1904). Neuseeländische Anneliden. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse.</em> Neue Folge 3(1): 1-80, 9 plates., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46755553
page(s): 45-46, plate VI figs. 16-19 [details]
new combination reference Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph]., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4218.1.1/25653
page(s): 50; note: to Leodamas, a transfer rejected by Zhadan 2020. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 45-46, plate VI figs. 16-19 [details]
new combination reference Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph]., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4218.1.1/25653
page(s): 50; note: to Leodamas, a transfer rejected by Zhadan 2020. [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Leodamas cylindrifer, orginally Scoloplos, then formerly Haploscoplos, is a important species for defining Orbiniidae genera as its original name is type of the formerly widely used but now invalid genus Haploscoloplos. See notes for Haploscoloplos and see particularly Blake (2017) [details]Taxonomy Blake (2017: 50,51) transferred Scoloplos cylindrifer to Leodamas as a new combination. He has no formal description or occurrence record, and did not examine specimens, but in a discussion on Leodamas he presents a long discussion on the taxonomic history and generic placement of S. cylindrifer Ehlers, a common and distinctive species (branched branchiae) in New Zealand and Australia. His diagnosis of Scoloplos versus Leodamas hinges on relatively minor differences. These are that in Scoloplos thoracic neurochaetae include blunt, inconspicuous uncini, few in number, not in distinct rows, abdominal neuropodia with embedded, non-projecting acicula. The transfer to Leodamas by Blake was rejected as premature by Zhadan (2020). [details]
