World Polychaeta Database - Lophiocephalus grandis Quatrefages, 1866

WoRMS name details

Lophiocephalus grandis Quatrefages, 1866

AphiaID

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

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior objective synonym of prior Siphostoma grande)

Accepted name

Trophoniella grandis (Blanchard in Gay, 1849)

Rank

Species

Parent

Lophiocephalus [misspelling] accepted as Lophiocephala Costa, 1841 accepted as Stylarioides Delle Chiaje, 1841

Original name

Siphostoma grande Blanchard in Gay, 1849

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): 485 [details]

(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. [Book, 8 volumes]. Volume 3 Zoologia, 5-52, & 3 Atlas plates, Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16438159 [details]

Type data

Note Coquimbo, Chile

Unreviewed

Type locality Coquimbo, Chile [details]

Taxonomic citation

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

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-17 10:44:16Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2018-02-14 21:06:38Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2018-02-19 03:21:48Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

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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): 485 [details]

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. [Book, 8 volumes]. Volume 3 Zoologia, 5-52, & 3 Atlas plates, Paris., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16438159 [details]

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]