WoRMS name details
Nauphanta mossambica (Peters, 1854)
334081 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334081)
unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination)
Species
Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865 accepted as Marphysa Quatrefages, 1866
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Eunice mossambica Peters, 1854) Peters, Wilhelm C.H. (1854). Über die Gattung <i>Bdella</i>, Savigny, (<i>Limnatis</i>, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1854: 607-614., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511
page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Nauphanta mossambica (Peters, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334081 on 2025-08-22
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Nomenclature
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(of Eunice mossambica Peters, 1854) Peters, Wilhelm C.H. (1854). Über die Gattung <i>Bdella</i>, Savigny, (<i>Limnatis</i>, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1854: 607-614., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511
page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
new combination reference Fauchald, Kristian. (1987). Redescription of the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(2): 375-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34570779, https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/3431 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
new combination reference Fauchald, Kristian. (1987). Redescription of the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(2): 375-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34570779, https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/3431 [details] Available for editors
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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]
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