Polychaeta name details
Eunice laticeps Ehlers, 1868
327710 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:327710)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
Eunice tentaculata Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted (replaced name, a junior primary...)
replaced name, a junior primary homonym to E. tentaculata, Kinberg, 1865
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ehlers, E. H. (1868). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. <em>Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 2: 269-748, plates XII-XXIV., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985162
page(s): 312 [details]
page(s): 312 [details]
Type locality contained in New Zealand
type locality contained in New Zealand [details]
Nomenclature Eunice laticeps is a replacement name of Ehlers (1868: 312) because two E. tentaculata names were published almost in the...
Nomenclature Eunice laticeps is a replacement name of Ehlers (1868: 312) because two E. tentaculata names were published almost in the same year. Eunice tentaculata Quatrefages appeared in Quatrefages' monographic two-volume work, which is always treated as not published until 1866. Thus E. tentaculata Kinberg, 1865 is treated as the senior name. Fauchald (1986, 1992) discusses the case. Ehlers replacement name, E. laticeps, is introduced very briefly in a list of Eunice species in a long footnote thus: "E. laticeps (mihi) = tentaculata Ouatrefages, Histoire des Anneies a. a. 0. pg. 317. Port Western. (Der Name, bereits von Kinberg einer Eunice gegeben, musste geändert werden.) [The name, already given by Kinberg to an Eunice, had to be changed.] As contemporaries noticed the homonymy at the time there seems little doubt the assignment of which was junior is correct. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Eunice laticeps Ehlers, 1868. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327710 on 2025-05-08
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Ehlers, E. H. (1868). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. <em>Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig.</em> 2: 269-748, plates XII-XXIV., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985162
page(s): 312 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
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status source Zanol, Joana; Hutchings, Pat A.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2020). <em>Eunice</em> <em>sensu lato</em> (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera <em>Eunice</em>, <em>Leodice</em> and <em>Nicidion</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4748(1): 1-43., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4748.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 312 [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Zanol, Joana; Hutchings, Pat A.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2020). <em>Eunice</em> <em>sensu lato</em> (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera <em>Eunice</em>, <em>Leodice</em> and <em>Nicidion</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4748(1): 1-43., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4748.1.1 [details] Available for editors
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Nomenclature Eunice laticeps is a replacement name of Ehlers (1868: 312) because two E. tentaculata names were published almost in the same year. Eunice tentaculata Quatrefages appeared in Quatrefages' monographic two-volume work, which is always treated as not published until 1866. Thus E. tentaculata Kinberg, 1865 is treated as the senior name. Fauchald (1986, 1992) discusses the case. Ehlers replacement name, E. laticeps, is introduced very briefly in a list of Eunice species in a long footnote thus: "E. laticeps (mihi) = tentaculata Ouatrefages, Histoire des Anneies a. a. 0. pg. 317. Port Western. (Der Name, bereits von Kinberg einer Eunice gegeben, musste geändert werden.) [The name, already given by Kinberg to an Eunice, had to be changed.] As contemporaries noticed the homonymy at the time there seems little doubt the assignment of which was junior is correct. [details]
