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Polychaeta taxon details

Marphysa mossambica (Peters, 1854) 
AphiaID: 209829

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Marphysa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865
Synonymised
taxa
  Eunice mossambica Peters, 1854 (objective synonym)
Marphysa simplex Treadwell, 1922 (subjective synonym, junior secondary homonym)
Nauphanta mossambica (Peters, 1855) (superseded recombination)
Nauphanta novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1865 (subjective synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides Polychètes de L'Australie meridionale. Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale, 56: 159-277. [details]

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 10(1): 1-237. [details]

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1956. Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 109(2): 239-310. [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
page(s): 37 [details]


from synonym: Kinberg, J. G. H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm, 21(10): 559-574. [details] [view taxon]

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

from synonym: Peters, Wilhelm C. H. 1854. Über die Gattung Bdella, Savigny, (Limnatis, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 607-614 , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511 [details] [view taxon] [full text]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1922. Leodicidae from Fiji and Samoa. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication, 312: 127-170. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]

Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Distribution: also distributed in Philippine Islands, Australia, Bay of Bengal, India and East Africa (Fauvel, 1953). [details]

Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed|Moved to different genus [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209829
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-26 11:57:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-05 11:28:13Z  changed  Govaerts, Ann
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-02-21 03:40:00Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
2013-02-11 21:05:20Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Marphysa mossambica (Peters, 1854). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209829 on 2013-05-21