WoRMS taxon details
Marphysa macintoshi Crossland, 1903
209833 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209833)
accepted
Species
Marphysa mcintoshi [misspelling of macintoshi] · unaccepted (lapsus in text flow, of no...)
lapsus in text flow, of no taxonomic significance
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Crossland, Cyril. (1903). On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - Polychaeta. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 73(2): 129-144, plates XIV-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31610178
page(s): 137, plate 14, figures 3-6; note: original spelling as Marphysa macintoshi [details]
page(s): 137, plate 14, figures 3-6; note: original spelling as Marphysa macintoshi [details]
Type locality contained in East Africa , Note Indian Ocean, eastern Africa
type locality contained in East Africa [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Indian Ocean, eastern Africa [details]
Distribution also distributed in Indian Ocean, India (Fauvel,1953).
Distribution also distributed in Indian Ocean, India (Fauvel,1953). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa macintoshi Crossland, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209833 on 2025-08-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Crossland, Cyril. (1903). On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - Polychaeta. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 73(2): 129-144, plates XIV-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31610178
page(s): 137, plate 14, figures 3-6; note: original spelling as Marphysa macintoshi [details]
page(s): 137, plate 14, figures 3-6; note: original spelling as Marphysa macintoshi [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 396; note: summary of information [details]
source of synonymy Day, J.H. 1962. Polychaeta from several localities in the western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 139(4): 627-656., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb01597.x [details] Available for editors
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status source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 396; note: summary of information [details]
source of synonymy Day, J.H. 1962. Polychaeta from several localities in the western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 139(4): 627-656., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb01597.x [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1922). Leodicidae from Fiji and Samoa. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 312: 127-170, plates 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5402751
page(s): 151 [details]
[request]additional source Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1922). Leodicidae from Fiji and Samoa. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 312: 127-170, plates 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5402751
page(s): 151 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution also distributed in Indian Ocean, India (Fauvel,1953). [details]Type locality Indian Ocean, eastern Africa [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | マルイワムシ | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Marphysa macintoshi)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Marphysa macintoshi Crossland, 1903; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536060)
To PESI
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Marphysa macintoshi)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Marphysa macintoshi Crossland, 1903; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536060)
To PESI
To ITIS
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