Marphysa californica Moore, 1909 
AphiaID: 336720

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
Sources		original description: Moore, J.P. 1909. Polychaetous annelids from Monterey Bay and San Diego, California. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 61(2): 235-295. [details] basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Zanol, J.; Halanych, K. M.; Struck, T. H.; Fauchald, K. 2010. Phylogeny of the bristle worm family Eunicidae (Eunicida, Annelida) and the phylogenetic utility of noncongruent 16S, COI and 18S in combined analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(2): 660-676. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.024 [details] taxonomy source: Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 10(1): 1-237. [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Links		To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes		Editor's comment: Hartman (1944) considered Marphysa californica a junior synonym of Marphysa sanguinea. However, Zanol et al. (2010) accepted both species as valid. [details] Specimen: California Academy of Science, San Francisco; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia [details] Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details] Type locality: Pacific Ocean, San Diego, California [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336720
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-03-18 12:55:09Z   created   Fauchald, Kristian 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian 2011-11-11 12:28:07Z   changed   Zanol, Joana
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		Citation: Zanol, J.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Marphysa californica Moore, 1909. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336720 on 2013-06-19