Polychaeta name details
Microphthalmus pacificus (Friedrich, 1956)
835985 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:835985)
unaccepted (superseded recombination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Hesionella pacifica Friedrich, 1956) Friedrich, Hermann. (1956). Mitteilungen über neue und wenig bekannte Polychaeten aus Mittel- und Südamerika. <em>Senckenbergiana biologica.</em> 37(1): 57-68. [details] Available for editors
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Status New combination, Microphthalmus pacificus, as used by Westheide 2013:417, who also stated (p.416): "Hesionella pacifica...
Status New combination, Microphthalmus pacificus, as used by Westheide 2013:417, who also stated (p.416): "Hesionella pacifica Friedrich, 1956 = Fridericiella pacifica (Friedrich) n.nom. by Hartmann- Schröder (1959, p. 74), see also Laubier (1967), however, belongs without doubt to Microphthalmus as the figures in the description clearly demonstrate (Friedrich 1956)." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Microphthalmus pacificus (Friedrich, 1956). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=835985 on 2025-05-22
original description
(of Hesionella pacifica Friedrich, 1956) Friedrich, Hermann. (1956). Mitteilungen über neue und wenig bekannte Polychaeten aus Mittel- und Südamerika. <em>Senckenbergiana biologica.</em> 37(1): 57-68. [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Westheide, Wilfried. (2013). Microphthalmus mahensis sp.n. (Annelida, Phyllodocida) together with an annotated key of the genus. <i>Helgoland Marine Research</i>. 67(3): 413-422., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-012-0332-1
page(s): 416 [details] Available for editors
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status source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2019). Phylogeny of Microphthalminae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971, and revision of Hesionella Hartman, 1939, and Struwela Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 (Annelida, Errantia). <em>PeerJ.</em> 7: e7723: 1-35., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/7723
note: revalidated the replacement name for Hesionella, therefore the combination in Microphthalmus is invalid [details] Available for editors
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new combination reference Westheide, Wilfried. (2013). Microphthalmus mahensis sp.n. (Annelida, Phyllodocida) together with an annotated key of the genus. <i>Helgoland Marine Research</i>. 67(3): 413-422., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-012-0332-1
page(s): 416 [details] Available for editors

status source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; De León-González, Jesús Angel; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2019). Phylogeny of Microphthalminae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971, and revision of Hesionella Hartman, 1939, and Struwela Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 (Annelida, Errantia). <em>PeerJ.</em> 7: e7723: 1-35., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/7723
note: revalidated the replacement name for Hesionella, therefore the combination in Microphthalmus is invalid [details] Available for editors

From editor or global species database
Status New combination, Microphthalmus pacificus, as used by Westheide 2013:417, who also stated (p.416): "Hesionella pacifica Friedrich, 1956 = Fridericiella pacifica (Friedrich) n.nom. by Hartmann- Schröder (1959, p. 74), see also Laubier (1967), however, belongs without doubt to Microphthalmus as the figures in the description clearly demonstrate (Friedrich 1956)." [details]