WoRMS name details
Gephyrea
1019642 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1019642)
Quatrefages, 1847
uncertain > nomen dubium
Class
marine, terrestrial
Quatrefages, Armand de. (1847). Etudes sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchement des Annelés. Mémoire sur l'Echiure de Gaertner (Echiurus gaertnerii Nob.). <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, 3rd Series, Zoologie.</em> 7: 307-343, plate 6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13406375
page(s): 340; note: proposed as sister group to Annelida, broadly for Sipuncula and Echiura [details]
page(s): 340; note: proposed as sister group to Annelida, broadly for Sipuncula and Echiura [details]
Etymology Quatrefages considered the taxa he placed in Gephyrea as intermediate in characteristics between Holothuria and Annelida....
Etymology Quatrefages considered the taxa he placed in Gephyrea as intermediate in characteristics between Holothuria and Annelida. Therefore the name Géphyriens (Gephyrea) came from Greek feminine 'Gephyra, a bridge. [details]
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Quatrefages, Armand de. (1847). Etudes sur les types inférieurs de l'embranchement des Annelés. Mémoire sur l'Echiure de Gaertner (Echiurus gaertnerii Nob.). <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, 3rd Series, Zoologie.</em> 7: 307-343, plate 6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13406375
page(s): 340; note: proposed as sister group to Annelida, broadly for Sipuncula and Echiura [details]
taxonomy source Selenka, Emil. (1885). Report on the Gephyrea collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology.</em> 13 (part 36): 1–25, plates I–IV., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-36/htm/doc.html [details]
additional source Wesenberg-Lund, Elise 1934. Gephyreans and annelids. The Scoresby Sound Committee's 2nd East Greenland Expedition in 1932 to King Christian IX's land. Meddelelser om Gr nland 104(14): 1-38,9figures. [details]
additional source Parker, T.Jeffrey; Haswell William A. (1910). A Text-Book of Zoology. <em>MacMillan, London.</em> volume 1 (of 2): pp. 839., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.23945
page(s): 491; note: Usage at level of class, by this time only including Sipuncula and Echiura [details]
page(s): 340; note: proposed as sister group to Annelida, broadly for Sipuncula and Echiura [details]
taxonomy source Selenka, Emil. (1885). Report on the Gephyrea collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology.</em> 13 (part 36): 1–25, plates I–IV., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-36/htm/doc.html [details]
additional source Wesenberg-Lund, Elise 1934. Gephyreans and annelids. The Scoresby Sound Committee's 2nd East Greenland Expedition in 1932 to King Christian IX's land. Meddelelser om Gr nland 104(14): 1-38,9figures. [details]
additional source Parker, T.Jeffrey; Haswell William A. (1910). A Text-Book of Zoology. <em>MacMillan, London.</em> volume 1 (of 2): pp. 839., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.23945
page(s): 491; note: Usage at level of class, by this time only including Sipuncula and Echiura [details]
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Classification The disused mixed group Gephyrea was created by Quatrefages (1847: 340) for the sub-group Siponculae (=Sipuncula) in which Quatrefages then included genera Priapule (now Priapulida) and 'Siponculides' and sub-group Echiurea (now Echiura) in which Quatrefages included genera Echiurus (now Echiuridae) and Sternaspis (now Sternaspidae). Later Quatrefages (1866: 563) treated Gephyrea as a separate group alongside Annelida. The name was widely used at varying ranks, with varying taxa membership. Baird (1868) treated it as a subclass, Parker & Haswell (1910: 491) treated it as a class in their phylum Annulata (class Chaetopoda included the polychaetes and oligochaetes). It was a well-known grouping, but Sipuncula, Echiura and Priapulida became separate phyla. Hyman (1959: 611) expressed the opinion that "the name and concept of Gephyrea must be obliterated from zoology." This seems somewhat over-emphatic, given the modest original intention of Quatrefages to find a position for what were just genera at the time . [details]Etymology Quatrefages considered the taxa he placed in Gephyrea as intermediate in characteristics between Holothuria and Annelida. Therefore the name Géphyriens (Gephyrea) came from Greek feminine 'Gephyra, a bridge. [details]
