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Polychaeta taxon detailsCalifia Hartman, 1957
324777 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324777)
accepted
Genus
Califia calida Hartman, 1957 (type by original designation)
marine,
recent only
feminine
Hartman, Olga. (1957). Orbiniidae, Apistobranchidae, Paraonidae and Longosomidae. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 15(3): 211-393., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4160176
page(s): 305-306 [details]
Etymology Not stated by the author. 'Califia', also known as 'Calafia', is the name of a fictional queen ruling over a kingdom of...
Etymology Not stated by the author. 'Califia', also known as 'Calafia', is the name of a fictional queen ruling over a kingdom of black women in the mythical Island of California, that would be located near the Indies. The character was created by the Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, who introduced her in his popular novel Las sergas de Esplandián, published in 1510. The name would be linked to what is known today as California, when the first Spaniards arriving to the eastern shores of Baja California Peninsula named the region after the legendary California, based on the assumption that it was a large island. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Califia Hartman, 1957. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324777 on 2024-04-16
Date action by
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1957). Orbiniidae, Apistobranchidae, Paraonidae and Longosomidae. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 15(3): 211-393., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4160176
page(s): 305-306 [details] additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors  [request] additional source Blake, James A. (2020). New species and records of deep-water Orbiniidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Eastern Pacific continental slope, abyssal Pacific Ocean, and the South China Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4730(1): 1-61., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4730.1.1 page(s): 21-22; note: emended diagnosis of genus [details] Available for editors [request] From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Hartman (1957: 305-306): "The prostomium is short and triangular. The first segment or peristomium is a smooth ring. The thoracic region is depressed near the middle. Transition from thorax to abdomen is abrupt with the change most apparent because of the difference in neuropodia. Branchiae are simple and lanceolate and first present from about the eighth segment; they are continued back to or near the posterior end and widely separated from each other across the middorsum. Neuropodial setae of the first three segments differ from those farther back in having coarser shafts and brushy tips [...]; all other thoracic setae are slender and distally pointed. Furcate setae are present in abdominal notopodia. Postsetal lobes of both notopodia and neuropodia are simple, longer to shorter slender lobes. Parapodia are lateral to dorsolateral in posterior segments. There are no interramal or ventral cirri, no subpodial or ventral fringe and no uncinate hooks or spines." [details]Diagnosis Emended diagnosis by Blake (2020: 21-22): "Prostomium pointed. Peristomium consisting of a single achaetous ring. Transition from thorax to abdomen abrupt due to distinct change in neuropodia. Branchiae from thoracic setiger 8–10; each branchia simple, lanceolate, may be lacking in most of abdominal region. Neuropodia with or without postsetal lobe; subpodial lobes absent. Abdominal segments lacking interramal and ventral cirri. Thoracic setigers 1–3 with dense fascicles of thickened uncini in neuropodia and 0 to few capillaries; 0 to few similar spines or uncini present in subsequent thoracic neuropodia, but capillaries numerous; neuropodial uncini with shafts either smooth or with ribs; tip of shaft with distinct sheath, often frayed,appearing bristled in light microscopy. Thoracic notosetae all capillaries. Abdominal notosetae including capillaries; furcate setae; flail setae present or absent; no uncini; abdominal neurosetae capillaries and imbedded uncini. Pygidium a rounded lobe with two long anal cirri." [details] Etymology Not stated by the author. 'Califia', also known as 'Calafia', is the name of a fictional queen ruling over a kingdom of black women in the mythical Island of California, that would be located near the Indies. The character was created by the Spanish writer Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, who introduced her in his popular novel Las sergas de Esplandián, published in 1510. The name would be linked to what is known today as California, when the first Spaniards arriving to the eastern shores of Baja California Peninsula named the region after the legendary California, based on the assumption that it was a large island. [details] Grammatical gender Feminine. In using 'calida' for the type species epithet, Hartman treats the genus as feminine, and also Califia is a female given name (see etymology). [details] |