WoRMS taxon details
Pherecardia Horst, 1886
204530 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204530)
accepted
Genus
Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886 accepted as Pherecardia striata (Kinberg, 1857) (type by monotypy)
Eucarunculata Malaquin & Dehorne, 1907 · unaccepted (type a subjective synonym in...)
type a subjective synonym in Pherecardia
Eucarunculatus [auct. lapsus] · unaccepted (misspelling of 'Eucarunculata')
- Species Pherecardia distincta (Hoagland, 1920)
- Species Pherecardia maculata Imajima, 2003
- Species Pherecardia striata (Kinberg, 1857)
- Species Pherecardia parva (Horst, 1912) [unpublished recombination] (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, Unpublished recombination. (Read, Geoff))
- Species Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886 accepted as Pherecardia striata (Kinberg, 1857) (subjective synonym)
- Species Pherecardia parva Monro, 1924 accepted as Pherecardites monroi Salazar-Vallejo, Piotrowski, Harris & Paulay, 2025 (unaccepted > junior homonym, valid but becomes junior secondary homonym when recombined into Pherecardites)
- Species Pherecardia polylamellata Silva, 1960 accepted as Pherecardia distincta (Hoagland, 1920) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Horst, R. (1886). [Note 24] Contributions towards the knowledge of the Annelida Polychaeta. I .Amphinomidae. <em>Notes from the Leyden Museum, Jentink.</em> 8: 157-174., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9637890, http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/552221
page(s): 165 [details]
page(s): 165 [details]
Note Type species recorded as Hermodice striata...
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Type species Type species recorded as Hermodice striata Kinberg 1857 in Fauchald, 1977, presumably because he regarded the correct type species Pherecardia lobata as its junior synonym. However, Pherecardia lobata is permanently the type species name, regardless of whether it is valid name or a junior synonym. [details]
Etymology Horst's footnote states that Pherecardia is derived from [Greek], to bear and [Greek], heart. Transliterated the words are...
Etymology Horst's footnote states that Pherecardia is derived from [Greek], to bear and [Greek], heart. Transliterated the words are 'phero' and 'kardia'. Horst does not state what feature the words describe, but he describes the median part of the caruncle as heart-shaped. Horst does not state a gender but it is assumed feminine as his adjectival species-group name ('lobata') has a feminine suffix. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pherecardia Horst, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204530 on 2026-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Horst, R. (1886). [Note 24] Contributions towards the knowledge of the Annelida Polychaeta. I .Amphinomidae. <em>Notes from the Leyden Museum, Jentink.</em> 8: 157-174., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9637890, http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/552221
page(s): 165 [details]
original description (of Eucarunculata Malaquin & Dehorne, 1907) Malaquin, A. and Dehorne, A. 1907. Les annelides polychetes de la Baie d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 15: 335-400., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38729#7 [details]
page(s): 165 [details]
original description (of Eucarunculata Malaquin & Dehorne, 1907) Malaquin, A. and Dehorne, A. 1907. Les annelides polychetes de la Baie d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 15: 335-400., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/38729#7 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; Piotrowski, Christina N.; Harris, Leslie; Paulay, Gustav. (2025). Revision of Pherecardia Horst, 1886 (Annelida, Amphinomidae). <em>Zoosystema.</em> 47 (28): 691-720., available online at https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/47/28 [details] Available for editors 
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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]
[request]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]
Other
additional source
Horst, Rutgerus. (1912). Polychaeta errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 1, Amphinomidae. <em>Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Botanisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900.</em> 24a: 1-43, 10 plates., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2187401
page(s): 32 [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
page(s): 32 [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Horst's footnote states that Pherecardia is derived from [Greek], to bear and [Greek], heart. Transliterated the words are 'phero' and 'kardia'. Horst does not state what feature the words describe, but he describes the median part of the caruncle as heart-shaped. Horst does not state a gender but it is assumed feminine as his adjectival species-group name ('lobata') has a feminine suffix. [details]Grammatical gender Pherecardia is feminine as Horst's type species adjectival species-group name ('lobata') has a feminine suffix. [details]
Type species Type species recorded as Hermodice striata Kinberg 1857 in Fauchald, 1977, presumably because he regarded the correct type species Pherecardia lobata as its junior synonym. However, Pherecardia lobata is permanently the type species name, regardless of whether it is valid name or a junior synonym. [details]
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