WoRMS name details
Onuphis falesia Castelli, 1982
130471 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130471)
unaccepted (Subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Castelli, Alberto. (1982). Onuphis falesia , a new species of Onuphinae (Polychaeta, Eunicidae). <em>Bolletino di zoologia.</em> 49(1-2): 45-49., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11250008209439371 [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype unknown, geounit Ligurian Sea
, Note Gulf of Follonica in Tuscany, Italy. No...
Holotype unknown, geounit Ligurian Sea [details]
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Type locality Gulf of Follonica in Tuscany, Italy. No geolocation is included but the former Italian port of Falesia, close to the collection site, is today called Portovecchio, and is at 42.9304 N, 10.5451 E, and is the port for the city of Piombino [details]
Etymology Onuphis falesia is named after the ancient Roman port of Falesia, close to the collection site. That is all Castelli has to...
Etymology Onuphis falesia is named after the ancient Roman port of Falesia, close to the collection site. That is all Castelli has to say about the etymology. The name as a species-group name is a straightforward unmodified noun in apposition and there are many such placename nouns which end in the -ia suffix. Without evidence to the contrary that is how we should assign it. However, Langeneck & Strazzulla (2025: 11) use 'falesia' as a theoretical example of a possible ambiguity for toponym interpretation, stating 'falesia' could also be constructed from "an adjective of the first class ‘falesius, -a, -um’, roughly translatable as ‘native of Falesia’." Taken literally this seems highly fanciful as there is no supporting evidence, and it is very unlikely that such sophistication in application of nomenclatural Latin might occur without explanation in an early work by Castelli (it appears to be his first publication). [G. Read, July 2025] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Onuphis falesia Castelli, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130471 on 2025-08-20
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Nomenclature
original description
Castelli, Alberto. (1982). Onuphis falesia , a new species of Onuphinae (Polychaeta, Eunicidae). <em>Bolletino di zoologia.</em> 49(1-2): 45-49., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11250008209439371 [details] Available for editors [request]
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source of synonymy
Arias, Andrés; Paxton, Hannelore. (2014). Hidden diversity within the polychaete <em>Onuphis</em> <em>eremita</em> <em>sensu</em> <em>lato</em> (Annelida: Onuphidae)—redescription of <em>O. eremita</em> Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 and reinstatement of <em>Onuphis</em> <em>pancerii</em> Claparède, 1868. <i>Zootaxa</i>. 3861(2): 145-169., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3861.2.3
page(s): 154 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 154 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS)
note: checklist listing [details]
note: checklist listing [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype unknown, geounit Ligurian Sea [details]
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Etymology Onuphis falesia is named after the ancient Roman port of Falesia, close to the collection site. That is all Castelli has to say about the etymology. The name as a species-group name is a straightforward unmodified noun in apposition and there are many such placename nouns which end in the -ia suffix. Without evidence to the contrary that is how we should assign it. However, Langeneck & Strazzulla (2025: 11) use 'falesia' as a theoretical example of a possible ambiguity for toponym interpretation, stating 'falesia' could also be constructed from "an adjective of the first class ‘falesius, -a, -um’, roughly translatable as ‘native of Falesia’." Taken literally this seems highly fanciful as there is no supporting evidence, and it is very unlikely that such sophistication in application of nomenclatural Latin might occur without explanation in an early work by Castelli (it appears to be his first publication). [G. Read, July 2025] [details]Type locality Gulf of Follonica in Tuscany, Italy. No geolocation is included but the former Italian port of Falesia, close to the collection site, is today called Portovecchio, and is at 42.9304 N, 10.5451 E, and is the port for the city of Piombino [details]
