WoRMS name details
Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886
334472 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334472)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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, PL 7, figures 10—14; note: Habitat and collection location unknown [details]
page(s): 165, PL 7, figures 10—14; note: Habitat and collection location unknown [details]
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Type locality Pherecardia lobata is based on a specimen in the Utrecht Museum. Its habitat and collection location was unknown to Horst. Modern authors assume the specimen came from Indonesia, perhaps from Ambon Island. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=334472 on 2026-04-01
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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, PL 7, figures 10—14; note: Habitat and collection location unknown [details]
page(s): 165, PL 7, figures 10—14; note: Habitat and collection location unknown [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Horst, R. 1911. On the synonymy of Pherecardia lobata Horst. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 34: 17-21.
note: The title may be misleading as this paper maintains Pherecardia lobata, while suggesting junior names to it (eg Eucarunculata grubei) [details]
taxonomy 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): 32-33; note: Horst maintains his Pherecardia lobata as valid, and includes Amphinome sericata and Eucarunculata grubei as synonyms. There are Siboga expedition specimens from Banda, Haingsisi, Timor and Amboina i...
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source of synonymy Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 131; note: Placed as a synonym of Hermodice striata, now Pherecardia striata [details]
status 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
page(s): 696; note: Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886 is included as a synonym of P. striata. The authors oddly state a later specimen at Leiden collected in 1901 is the holotype of P. lobata [details] Available for editors
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note: The title may be misleading as this paper maintains Pherecardia lobata, while suggesting junior names to it (eg Eucarunculata grubei) [details]
taxonomy 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): 32-33; note: Horst maintains his Pherecardia lobata as valid, and includes Amphinome sericata and Eucarunculata grubei as synonyms. There are Siboga expedition specimens from Banda, Haingsisi, Timor and Amboina i...
Horst maintains his Pherecardia lobata as valid, and includes Amphinome sericata and Eucarunculata grubei as synonyms. There are Siboga expedition specimens from Banda, Haingsisi, Timor and Amboina in his material.
source of synonymy Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 131; note: Placed as a synonym of Hermodice striata, now Pherecardia striata [details]
status 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
page(s): 696; note: Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886 is included as a synonym of P. striata. The authors oddly state a later specimen at Leiden collected in 1901 is the holotype of P. lobata [details] Available for editors
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Holotype Holotype not located. Horst's single specimen came from the Utrecht Museum, not the Leiden Museum.. Salazar-Vallejo et al (2025) report that a specimen in the Rijksmuseum voor Natuurlijke Historie (Naturalis) at Leiden is labelled as "RMNH VER.1295, Ambon Bay, III.1901, R. Semon leg". Salazar-Vallejo et al (2025: 8 of 32), somewhat against the evidence, and for reasons not explained, regard this 1901 specimen as Horst's holotype, and report that the "specimen matches the original description, [but] the label indicates that it was collected in 1901, 15 years after the original description." It is thus very unlikely this is the holotype of Pherecardia lobata although Salazar-Vallejo et al (2025) headline the specimen as "Holotype of Pherecardia lobata" in two places in their article,and give a description of it as if it was undoubtedly the holotype, which it is not. A further specimen was added to the museum, collected by a different collector, also from Ambon Island, dated 1902, consistent with the collection date of 1901 of the first specimen being correct and thus excluding it from being Horst's specimen, which belonged to a different museum and likely was returned there. [details]Synonymy Hartman catalogue (1959:137) suggested this species was the same as Pherecardia striata, and this was the synonymy used by Day (1967:131). Pherecardia striata is widely used, but the P. lobata synonymy to it appears not to have been scrutinised rigorously. Pherecardia lobata Horst, 1886 is included as a synonym of P. striata in the review of the genus by Salazar-Vallejo (2025: 696). The authors oddly state a later specimen at Leiden collected in 1901 thus 15 years after the original description is the holotype of P. lobata. [details]
Type locality Pherecardia lobata is based on a specimen in the Utrecht Museum. Its habitat and collection location was unknown to Horst. Modern authors assume the specimen came from Indonesia, perhaps from Ambon Island. [details]
