Polychaeta name details
Ethocles Webster & Benedict, 1887
325778 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325778)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
Ethocles typicus Webster & Benedict, 1887 accepted as Apistobranchus typicus (Webster & Benedict, 1887) (type by original designation)
- Species Ethocles typicus Webster & Benedict, 1887 accepted as Apistobranchus typicus (Webster & Benedict, 1887) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Webster, Harrison Edwin and Benedict, James E. (1887). The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. <em>U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries. Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries.</em> 1885. part 13, II. appendix to report of commissioner, D.22. :707-758, including pls. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15839855
page(s): 733; note: for type species designation see ICZN (1999) Art. 68.2.2 [details]
page(s): 733; note: for type species designation see ICZN (1999) Art. 68.2.2 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Ethocles Webster & Benedict, 1887. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325778 on 2025-05-01
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Webster, Harrison Edwin and Benedict, James E. (1887). The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. <em>U.S. Commission of Fish & Fisheries. Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries.</em> 1885. part 13, II. appendix to report of commissioner, D.22. :707-758, including pls. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15839855
page(s): 733; note: for type species designation see ICZN (1999) Art. 68.2.2 [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1965). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 28: 1-384., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/20299
page(s): 144; note: states that Ethocles differs from Apistobranchus in having a 1st chaetiger ventral cirrus. "This feature may be specific." [details]
source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746
page(s): 295; note: Both Ethocles and Skadaria placed as synonyms of Apistobranchus [details]
page(s): 733; note: for type species designation see ICZN (1999) Art. 68.2.2 [details]
additional source Hartman, O. (1965). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 28: 1-384., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/20299
page(s): 144; note: states that Ethocles differs from Apistobranchus in having a 1st chaetiger ventral cirrus. "This feature may be specific." [details]
source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746
page(s): 295; note: Both Ethocles and Skadaria placed as synonyms of Apistobranchus [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Pettibone (1963) placed both Ethocles typicus and Skardaria fragmentata as Apistobranchus tullbergi. Thus the genera were synonyms of Apistobranchus. Hartman (1965) also treated the genera as synonyms but regarded the species as valid [details]Type designation Type species Ethocles typicus Webster & Benedict, 1887 by original designation, according to Art. 68.2.2. of the ICZN (1999): "If, when a nominal genus-group taxon is established without explicit designation of a type species, one originally included new nominal species [Art. 67.2] is given the species-group name typicus, -a, -um or typus, that nominal species is deemed to be the type species by original designation." [details]
