WoRMS taxon details
Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866
129189 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129189)
accepted
Genus
Amphinome incarunculata Peters, 1854 accepted as Linopherus incarunculata (Peters, 1854) (type by monotypy)
Amphinome (Linopherus) Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted (superseded subsequent rank change)
Pseudeurythoe Fauvel, 1932 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pseudoeurythoe [auctt. misspelling] · unaccepted (lapsus)
- Species Linopherus abyssalis (Fauchald, 1972)
- Species Linopherus acarunculatus (Monro, 1937)
- Species Linopherus ambigua (Monro, 1933)
- Species Linopherus annulata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1965)
- Species Linopherus beibuwanensis Sun & Li, 2016
- Species Linopherus brevis (Grube, 1878)
- Species Linopherus canariensis Langerhans, 1881
- Species Linopherus fauchaldi San Martín, 1986
- Species Linopherus hemuli (Fauchald, 1972)
- Species Linopherus hirsuta (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
- Species Linopherus incarunculata (Peters, 1854)
- Species Linopherus kristiani Salazar-Vallejo, 1987
- Species Linopherus microcephala (Fauvel, 1932)
- Species Linopherus minuta (Knox, 1960)
- Species Linopherus oculifera (Augener, 1913)
- Species Linopherus oligobranchia (Wu, Shen & Chen, 1975)
- Species Linopherus paucibranchiata (Fauvel, 1932)
- Species Linopherus reducta (Kudenov & Blake, 1985)
- Species Linopherus spiralis (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)
- Species Linopherus tripunctata (Kudenov, 1975)
- Species Linopherus oculata (Treadwell, 1941) accepted as Cryptonome oculata (Treadwell, 1941) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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): 407 [details]
page(s): 407 [details]
Etymology The etymology of 'Linopherus' is unknown. It looks to be a compound with a masculine ending, but possible derivations have...
Etymology The etymology of 'Linopherus' is unknown. It looks to be a compound with a masculine ending, but possible derivations have not been found. Quatrefages left the suffix of Amphinome incarunculata Peters, 1854 unchanged when he created the combination. Members of the genus first named in Eurythoe, a feminine name, also retained their original suffix when recombined. Whether this is accidental or deliberate is uncertain. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Linopherus Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129189 on 2025-05-23
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Nomenclature
original description
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): 407 [details]
original description (of Pseudeurythoe Fauvel, 1932) Fauvel, Pierre. (1932). Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-262, plates I-IX., available online at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/memoirs/012/01/index.pdf
page(s): 46-47 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 407 [details]
original description (of Pseudeurythoe Fauvel, 1932) Fauvel, Pierre. (1932). Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. <em>Memoirs of the Indian Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-262, plates I-IX., available online at http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/memoirs/012/01/index.pdf
page(s): 46-47 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
Borda, Elizabeth; Yáñez-Rivera, Beatriz; Ochoa, Gabriela M.; Kudenov, Jerry D.; Sanchez-Ortiz, Carlos; Schulze, Anja; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Revamping Amphinomidae (Annelida: Amphinomida), with the inclusion of Notopygos. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 44(3): 324-333., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12099
page(s): 330; note: provisional inclusion in Amphinominae until further study [details]
page(s): 330; note: provisional inclusion in Amphinominae until further study [details]
Identification resource
identification resource
Sun, Yue; Li, Xinzheng. (2016). A new species of <em>Linopherus</em> (Annelida, Amphinomidae) from Beibu Gulf, South China Sea. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 640: 37-43., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9619
note: Key for all species of Linopherus [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Key for all species of Linopherus [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
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) [details]
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) [details]
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Etymology The etymology of 'Linopherus' is unknown. It looks to be a compound with a masculine ending, but possible derivations have not been found. Quatrefages left the suffix of Amphinome incarunculata Peters, 1854 unchanged when he created the combination. Members of the genus first named in Eurythoe, a feminine name, also retained their original suffix when recombined. Whether this is accidental or deliberate is uncertain. [details]Grammatical gender Unclear. Linopherus appears to be masculine, but the majority of species names have not been adjusted from the original feminine [details]
