WoRMS name details
Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia Hartman, 1967
337938 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337938)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 130-131, plate 39 figs. A-D [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 130-131, plate 39 figs. A-D [details] Available for editors
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Note East Bransfield Strait, between the South...
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Type locality East Bransfield Strait, between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, 769 m, 61 degrees 44' S, 55 degrees 56' W [details]
Etymology Not stated but Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia is named after the Bransfield Strait which is named after Edward Bransfield who...
Taxonomy Moved to different genus.
Etymology Not stated but Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia is named after the Bransfield Strait which is named after Edward Bransfield who earlier had charted the South Shetland Islands The question is whether Hartman intended 'bransfieldia' to be an adjective or a noun, or did not consider the issue. Brown (1954: 45) doesn't include 'ia' in adjectival suffixes of place (cf -ensis), but includes 'ia' in dedicatives and for meaning 'pertaining to'. Brown (1954: 549) makes his clearest statement that: "-ius, m.; -ia, f.; -ium, n., suffixes attached to the stems of personal and other proper names form nominative generic commemoratives. Although here we have a species-group name, bransfieldia' is a feminine abstract Latinized noun and unchanging, similar to Australia, Zealandia, Hispania, Brittania, and many other regional geographic names which remain nouns, but have that suffix. Later Hartman synonymised the genus but created a subspecies as Pseudoscalibregma bransfieldia collaris Hartman, 1978, correctly leaving the species-group name unchanged although now in a neuter genus. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus.
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia Hartman, 1967. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337938 on 2025-11-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 130-131, plate 39 figs. A-D [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference Hartman, Olga. (1978). Polychaeta from the Weddell Sea quadrant, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 26(4): 125-223., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118664599.ch4/summary
page(s): 180-181, fig. 28a-c [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 130-131, plate 39 figs. A-D [details] Available for editors
[request]new combination reference Hartman, Olga. (1978). Polychaeta from the Weddell Sea quadrant, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 26(4): 125-223., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118664599.ch4/summary
page(s): 180-181, fig. 28a-c [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Not stated but Eusclerocheilus bransfieldia is named after the Bransfield Strait which is named after Edward Bransfield who earlier had charted the South Shetland Islands The question is whether Hartman intended 'bransfieldia' to be an adjective or a noun, or did not consider the issue. Brown (1954: 45) doesn't include 'ia' in adjectival suffixes of place (cf -ensis), but includes 'ia' in dedicatives and for meaning 'pertaining to'. Brown (1954: 549) makes his clearest statement that: "-ius, m.; -ia, f.; -ium, n., suffixes attached to the stems of personal and other proper names form nominative generic commemoratives. Although here we have a species-group name, bransfieldia' is a feminine abstract Latinized noun and unchanging, similar to Australia, Zealandia, Hispania, Brittania, and many other regional geographic names which remain nouns, but have that suffix. Later Hartman synonymised the genus but created a subspecies as Pseudoscalibregma bransfieldia collaris Hartman, 1978, correctly leaving the species-group name unchanged although now in a neuter genus. [details]Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality East Bransfield Strait, between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula, 769 m, 61 degrees 44' S, 55 degrees 56' W [details]
