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Lophiocephalus grandis Quatrefages, 1866

328877  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328877)

 unaccepted (junior objective synonym of prior Siphostoma grande)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 485 [details] OpenAccess publication

(of Siphostoma grande Blanchard in Gay, 1849) Blanchard, Emile. (1849). Fauna Chilena. Anulares. IN: Gay, Claudio (Ed.). Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Segun documentos adquiridos en esta republica durante doce anos de residencia en alla. <em>[Book, 8 volumes].</em> Volume 3 Zoologia, 5-52, & 3 Atlas plates, Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16438159 [details] OpenAccess publication
Note Coquimbo, Chile  
Unreviewed
Type locality Coquimbo, Chile [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lophiocephalus grandis Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328877 on 2025-07-15
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2018-02-14 21:06:38Z
changed
2018-02-19 03:21:48Z
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Nomenclature

original description Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 485 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Siphostoma grande Blanchard in Gay, 1849) Blanchard, Emile. (1849). Fauna Chilena. Anulares. IN: Gay, Claudio (Ed.). Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Segun documentos adquiridos en esta republica durante doce anos de residencia en alla. <em>[Book, 8 volumes].</em> Volume 3 Zoologia, 5-52, & 3 Atlas plates, Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16438159 [details] OpenAccess publication

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Synonymy Quatrefages (1866: 485) described (relatively fully) Lophiocephalus grandis, but evidently from the same two Paris museum specimens collected by Gaudichaud from Coquimbo, Chile, that Blanchard (1849) had earlier used to describe Siphostoma grande (now Trophoniella grandis). This unfortunate circumstance makes 'Lophiocephalus grandis' the objective junior synonym of Siphostoma grande. It is unclear if this was simply a genuine error, or an intentional unnecessary new name, but Quatrefages gives no indication that he knew the specimen was already named, and with the same epithet he used (obvious because of the large size). Salazar-Vallejo (2012: 488) comments on this, mentioning an unrelated occasion where Quatrefages apparently "introduced new names even when he was aware that a previous name had already been used for the same species".  [details]

Unreviewed
Specimen Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 378, 379 [details]

Type locality Coquimbo, Chile [details]