World Polychaeta Database - Diplobranchus Quatrefages, 1866

WoRMS name details

Diplobranchus Quatrefages, 1866

AphiaID

1518989 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1518989)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (objective synonym)

Accepted name

Nephtys Cuvier, 1817

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Nereis ciliata Müller, 1788 accepted as Nephtys ciliata (Müller, 1788) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Nephtyidae Grube, 1850

Original name

Diplobranchus Quatrefages, 1866

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Species Diplobranchus ciliatus (Müller, 1788) accepted as Nephtys ciliata (Müller, 1788) (superseded recombination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. Volume 1. 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 433 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Diplobranchus Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1518989 on 2025-05-03

Taxonomic edit history

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2021-07-08 19:51:50Z

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Gil, João

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Nomenclature

original description Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. Volume 1. 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 433 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Ehlers, E. H. (1868). Die Borstenwürmer (Annelida Chaetopoda) nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 2: 269-748, plates XII-XXIV., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1985162
page(s): 587 [details]

source of synonymy Malmgren, A.J. (1867). Annulata Polychaeta Spetsbergiæ, Grœnlandiæ, Islandiæ et Scandinaviæ. Hactenus Cognita. Ex Officina Frenckelliana, Helsingforslæ. 127 pp. & XIV plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/13358
page(s): 17 [details]

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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Quatrefages (1866: 433): "Tête très-petite, mais distincte, privée d'antennes. Corps terminé par deux cirrhes. Pieds à deux rames très-séparées, portant chacune (?) une branchie cirrhiforme. Caput minimum, distinctum, antennis destitutum. Corpus cirris duobus terminatum. Pedes biremes, remis remotis, utroque (?) branchiam cirriformem gerente." [details]

Synonymy Dasybranchus Quatrefages, 1866 and Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 share the same type species, Nereis ciliata Müller, 1788, for which reason the former is an objective synonym of the latter. [details]

Unreviewed

Nephtys ciliata

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Nephtys ciliata (conserved)

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