WoRMS name details

Serpula furcifera Grube, 1878 [original]

338104  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338104)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Sedentaria (Subclass)
  6. Canalipalpata (Infraclass)
  7. Sabellida (Order)
  8. Serpulidae (Family)
  9. Serpulinae (Subfamily)
  10. Serpulini (Tribe)
  11. Serpula (Genus)
  12. Serpula furcifera (Species)
 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
page(s): 268, Pl.15,fig.4; note: original spelling is Serpula furcifera [details] 
Note “Ubay, Pandanon”, Philippines. Ubay...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality “Ubay, Pandanon”, Philippines. Ubay (10.0606° 124.4707°) is a small port on Bohol Island, with Pandanon Island (10.1779° 124.0839°) a small reef ~45 km to the west of Ubay. [details]
Type material types in Wroclaw [details]
Etymology "furcifera", fork bearer or fork-bearing  
Etymology "furcifera", fork bearer or fork-bearing [details]

Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Serpula furcifera Grube, 1878 [original]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338104 on 2025-05-10
Date
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-20 06:44:16Z
changed
Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2009-12-02 16:00:09Z
changed
ten Hove, Harry
2016-03-30 22:58:57Z
changed
Read, Geoffrey

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Nomenclature

original description Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
page(s): 268, Pl.15,fig.4; note: original spelling is Serpula furcifera [details] 

Taxonomy

status source 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. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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

From editor or global species database
Etymology "furcifera", fork bearer or fork-bearing [details]

Grammatical gender Not stated, but Grube described for S. furcifera forked spines in the opercular funnel as well as the verticil, thus Latin furca ‘fork’, combined with adjectival suffix –fer -a -um ‘bear'. Lewis & Short (1891: 795) include ‘furcifera’ as a feminine noun meaning phallus, but it is unlikely this was Grube’s derivation. 'furcifer' is the masculine form. Furcillata would be a more obvious adjectival form.
 [details]

Type locality “Ubay, Pandanon”, Philippines. Ubay (10.0606° 124.4707°) is a small port on Bohol Island, with Pandanon Island (10.1779° 124.0839°) a small reef ~45 km to the west of Ubay. [details]

Type material types in Wroclaw [details]

Unreviewed
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

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