WoRMS name details
Schnehagenia rapax Claus, 1871
1545954 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1545954)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Schnehagenia Claus, 1871 accepted as Thamyris Spence Bate, 1863 accepted as Brachyscelus Spence Bate, 1861
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claus, C. (1871). Untersuchungen über den Bau und der Verwandtschaft der Hyperiden. <em>Nachrichten von der Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georg-Augustus-Universität zu Göttingen, Yahre 1871.</em> 149–157. [details]
Note Type material of Schnehagenia rapax could not...
Type material Type material of Schnehagenia rapax could not be found in any major European museum and is considered lost. Claus (1887) provides a figure of a mature male (about 10 mm) but does not illustrate P5 or P6 which best characterise species of Brachyscelus. Claus (1887) does not document any other specimens and no precise type locality is given, just “Vom Capit. Schnehagen am Cap gefangen”, probably off the Cape of Good
Hope. [details]
Hope. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Schnehagenia rapax Claus, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1545954 on 2025-12-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Claus, C. (1871). Untersuchungen über den Bau und der Verwandtschaft der Hyperiden. <em>Nachrichten von der Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften und der Georg-Augustus-Universität zu Göttingen, Yahre 1871.</em> 149–157. [details]
Other
additional source
Zeidler, W. (2021). A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5026 (3): 405–439., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5026.3.4 [details] Available for editors 
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Type material Type material of Schnehagenia rapax could not be found in any major European museum and is considered lost. Claus (1887) provides a figure of a mature male (about 10 mm) but does not illustrate P5 or P6 which best characterise species of Brachyscelus. Claus (1887) does not document any other specimens and no precise type locality is given, just “Vom Capit. Schnehagen am Cap gefangen”, probably off the Cape of Good Hope. [details]
