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Polychaeta name details

Aphrodite [auctt.]

324798 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324798)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Aphroditiformia (Suborder)
  8. Aphroditidae (Family)
  9. Aphrodite (Genus)
 unaccepted (variant spelling)
Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758
Genus
Aphroditidae Malmgren, 1867

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  1. Species Aphrodite aculeata (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Aphrodita aculeata Linnaeus, 1758 (genus Aphrodita is misspelled)
  2. Species Aphrodite acuminata Ehlers, 1887 accepted as Aphrodita acuminata Ehlers, 1887
  3. Species Aphrodite alta Kinberg, 1856 [as genus misspelling] accepted as Aphrodita alta Kinberg, 1856 (incorrect spelling of genus Aphrodita)
  4. Species Aphrodite australis Baird, 1865 accepted as Aphrodita australis Baird, 1865 (genus Aphrodita is misspelled)
  5. Species Aphrodite centenes Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Aphrodita australis Baird, 1865 (variant spelling)
  6. Species Aphrodite echidna Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Aphrodita echidna Quatrefages, 1866 (variant spelling)
  7. Species Aphrodite echinus Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Pontogenia chrysocoma (Baird, 1865) (variant spelling)
  8. Species Aphrodite hystrix (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Laetmonice hystrix (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818) (superseded recombination, variant spelling of Aphrodita)
  9. Species Aphrodite japonica Marenzeller, 1879 accepted as Aphrodita japonica Marenzeller, 1879 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, genus misspelled by original author)
  10. Species Aphrodite longipalpa Essenberg, 1917 accepted as Aphrodita longipalpa Essenberg, 1917 (genus Aphrodita is misspelled)
  11. Species Aphrodite longirostris [lapsus by Monro, 1936 for intended A. longicornis] accepted as Aphrodita longicornis Kinberg, 1856 (subjective synonym)
  12. Species Aphrodite negligens Moore, 1905 accepted as Aphrodita negligens Moore, 1905 (subsequent misspeling of genus Aphrodita)
  13. Species Aphrodite parva Moore, 1905 accepted as Aphrodita parva Moore, 1905 (subsequent misspeling of genus Aphrodita)
  14. Species Aphrodite perarmata Roule, 1898 accepted as Aphrodita perarmata Roule, 1898
  15. Species Aphrodite perarmata Roule, 1906 accepted as Aphrodita perarmata Roule, 1898 (variant spelling)
  16. Species Aphrodite raripapillata Essenberg, 1917 accepted as Aphrodita armifera Moore, 1910 (subjective synonym)
  17. Species Aphrodite roulei Horst, 1917 accepted as Aphrodita perarmata Roule, 1898 (subjective synonym; genus variant spelling)
  18. Species Aphrodite solitaria Essenberg, 1917 accepted as Aphrodita refulgida Moore, 1910 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, genus variant spelling of subjective synonym)
  19. Species Aphrodite sondaica Grube, 1875 accepted as Aphrodita sondaica Grube, 1875 (genus misspelled by original author)
  20. Species Aphrodite squamosa Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Euphione squamosa (Quatrefages, 1866) (genus variant spelling)
  21. Species Aphrodite talpa Quatrefages, 1866 accepted as Aphrodita talpa Quatrefages, 1866 (subsequent misspeling of genus Aphrodita)
  22. Species Aphrodite terraereginae Haswell, 1883 accepted as Aphrodita terraereginae Haswell, 1883 (subsequent misspeling of genus Aphrodita)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 655 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Aphrodite [auctt.]. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324798 on 2026-08-15
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2008-03-05 14:39:51Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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Fauchald, Kristian
2010-10-21 18:59:36Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2025-05-02 22:18:20Z
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Gil, João

original description (of Aphrodita Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 655 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
note: Hartman records Aphrodite as a variant spelling of Aphrodita, but her style was to autocorrect obvious incorrect spellings, so the examples are not documented in her catalogue. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
From editor or global species database
Spelling It is uncertain if all these "Aphrodite" variants exist in literature. However, for example Quatrefages (1866) used informal names in headings (eg Aphrodite echidne for Aphrodita echidna), along with the formal Aphrodita latin name. Subsequent authors may have used these informal names or used the informal genus spelling. [details]
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