WoRMS name details
Nauphanta novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1865
329446 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329446)
unaccepted > superseded combination (superseded original combination)
Species
Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865 accepted as Marphysa Quatrefages, 1866
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 564 [details]
page(s): 564 [details]
Note Sydney port, New South Wales, Australia.
From editor or global species database
Type locality Sydney port, New South Wales, Australia. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Nauphanta novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329446 on 2026-02-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 564 [details]
page(s): 564 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2 [details] Available for editors 
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status source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel Cristina.; Idris, Izwandy. (2021). Unravelling the convoluted nomenclature of Marphysa simplex (Annelida, Eunicidae) with the proposal of a new name and the re-description of species. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 97(1): 121-139., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.59559
page(s): 127, table 1.; note: treated as a valid Marphysa, but there is no formal description. [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Fauchald, Kristian. (1987). Redescription of the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(2): 375-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34570779, https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/3431
page(s): 375; note: Fauchald treated Nauphanta as a valid genus and named Nauphanta novaehollandiae as the type species (subsequent designation) [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]status source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel Cristina.; Idris, Izwandy. (2021). Unravelling the convoluted nomenclature of Marphysa simplex (Annelida, Eunicidae) with the proposal of a new name and the re-description of species. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 97(1): 121-139., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.97.59559
page(s): 127, table 1.; note: treated as a valid Marphysa, but there is no formal description. [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Fauchald, Kristian. (1987). Redescription of the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(2): 375-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34570779, https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/3431
page(s): 375; note: Fauchald treated Nauphanta as a valid genus and named Nauphanta novaehollandiae as the type species (subsequent designation) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Holotype Holotype SMNH-type-432, one specimen divided into four vials, one of them with maxillary apparatus (fide Molina-Acevedo & Idris (2021) [details]Spelling Kinberg (1865: 564) published the name as "Nauphanta novae Hollandiae". This automatically becomes 'novaehollandiae' [details]
Type locality Sydney port, New South Wales, Australia. [details]
