WoRMS name details
original description
(of Marphysa Quatrefages, 1866) Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ page(s): 331; note: Quatrefages named Marphysa, and included several former Eunice species. [details]
basis of record
Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218 page(s): 165; note: Usage of Marphysa as a subgenus of Eunice [details]
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Grube (1878) in 'Annulata Semperiana" may be the first user of genus Marphysa reduced in rank as a subgenus of Eunice. He has "Eunice (Marphysa) novae HoIIandiae (Kbg )". This was a recombined usage of the original species name Nauphanta novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1865, currently placed as a synonym of Marphysa mossambica. Grube misspells the original genus as "Nanphanta" [details]
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