WoRMS name details
Eunice mossambica Peters, 1854
336643 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336643)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Peters, Wilhelm C.H. (1854). Über die Gattung <i>Bdella</i>, Savigny, (<i>Limnatis</i>, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1854: 607-614., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511
page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
Type locality contained in Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Mozambique, no geolocation but surmised to be...
type locality contained in Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Type locality Mozambique, no geolocation but surmised to be collected on the island of Mozambique, -15.036667, 40.732778, rather than a location on the Mozambique coast. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Eunice mossambica Peters, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336643 on 2026-02-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Peters, Wilhelm C.H. (1854). Über die Gattung <i>Bdella</i>, Savigny, (<i>Limnatis</i>, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. <em>Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.</em> 1854: 607-614., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511
page(s): 612 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 612 [no figures] [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 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 [details] Available for editors [request]
[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 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
