World Polychaeta Database - Didymobranchus Schmarda, 1861

WoRMS name details

Didymobranchus Schmarda, 1861

AphiaID

324635 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324635)

Classification

Status

uncertain > nomen dubium (species indeterminable from description)

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Didymobranchus cryptocephalus Schmarda, 1861 (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Amphinomidae Lamarck, 1818

Original name

Didymobranchus Schmarda, 1861

Direct children (2)

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Species Didymobranchus cryptocephalus Schmarda, 1861 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminable from description)
Species Didymobranchus microcephalus Schmarda, 1861 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminable from description)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 134, 138 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Didymobranchus Schmarda, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324635 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-05 14:39:51Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

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Fauchald, Kristian

2015-11-22 23:08:05Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2025-05-05 03:49:53Z

changed

Gil, João

Licensing

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Sources (4)

Nomenclature

original description Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 134, 138 [details]

Taxonomy

status source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
page(s): 132; note: reported as 'questionable' [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm
page(s): 138 [details]

subsequent type designation Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
page(s): 132; note: Didymobranchus cryptocephalus designated as the type species [details] Available for editors

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