WoRMS name details

Scyphoproctus gravieri Okuda, 1940

955405  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:955405)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Scolecida (Infraclass)
  7. Capitellidae (Family)
  8. Scyphoproctus (Genus)
  9. Scyphoproctus gravieri (Species)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (fragment only, probably indeterminable)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Okuda, Shiro. (1940). Polychaetous annelids of the Ryukyu Islands. <em>Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan.</em> 10(1): 1-24.
page(s): 19-20 and figure 9.; note: based on a post fragment [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  unknown (no specimen deposit details with...  
Holotype unknown (no specimen deposit details with description), geounit Okinawa Island [details]
, Note Okinawa Island (Kakiihana (Kakinohana?),...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Okinawa Island (Kakiihana (Kakinohana?), Japan, 26.1417°, 127.7987° (map estimate from gazetteer), intertidal [details]
Etymology author states named for Ch. Gravier  
Etymology author states named for Ch. Gravier [details]

Status Scyphoproctus gravieri is incompletely known as it was described from a posterior fragment (present location of the...  
Status Scyphoproctus gravieri is incompletely known as it was described from a posterior fragment (present location of the specimen in a collection unknown). Da Silva & Amaral (2019: 96) state: "this species should be classified as species inquirenda until new collections and formal description of a complete specimen from the type locality become available". [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Scyphoproctus gravieri Okuda, 1940. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955405 on 2025-05-05
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2017-02-12 21:27:49Z
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Read, Geoffrey
2019-02-24 20:56:46Z
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Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description Okuda, Shiro. (1940). Polychaetous annelids of the Ryukyu Islands. <em>Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan.</em> 10(1): 1-24.
page(s): 19-20 and figure 9.; note: based on a post fragment [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Holotype unknown (no specimen deposit details with description), geounit Okinawa Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology author states named for Ch. Gravier [details]

Holotype based on a posterior fragment. Okuda wrote "present new species is represented by a single posterior body with 7 last setigerous segments and a pygidium. So far as examined by this scanty material the present specimen may well be referable to Scyphoproctus" [details]

Status Scyphoproctus gravieri is incompletely known as it was described from a posterior fragment (present location of the specimen in a collection unknown). Da Silva & Amaral (2019: 96) state: "this species should be classified as species inquirenda until new collections and formal description of a complete specimen from the type locality become available". [details]

Type locality Okinawa Island (Kakiihana (Kakinohana?), Japan, 26.1417°, 127.7987° (map estimate from gazetteer), intertidal [details]

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