WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Martin, Daniel; Gil, João; Zanol, Joana; Meca, Miguel Ángel; Pérez Portela, Rocío. (2020). Digging the diversity of Iberian bait worms <i>Marphysa</i> (Annelida, Eunicidae). <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 15(1): e0226749., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226749 page(s): 9/37, figures 3A, 3B, 4, 5A, 5B, 6, 7A, 7B, 8, 9A, 9B, 10A and 10D; note: authored by the first 3 authors, from Salina de San Ramon, Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype MNCN 16.01/18522, geounit Cadiz [details]
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Etymology authors: Marphysa gaditana species name "refers to Gadir, the Fenician name of the oldest settlement
of the city of Càdiz; “gaditana” means “from Gadir” and it is the Spanish epithet (feminine) for Cadiz inhabitants". [details]
Type locality Holotype from Salina de San Ramon, Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain, 36.4424, -6.1794 (36˚ 26’ 32.5" N, 6˚ 10’ 45.82” W), 0.1 m. The authors suggest that according to "ICZN Article 76.1.1, the actual type locality must be the nearby intertidal muddy shores of the Natural Park of the Bay of Cadiz (approx. 36.349˚N, 6.181˚W), Chiclana de la Frontera, Cadiz (SW Iberian Peninsula), from where the specimens or their progenitors were originally native." The site of collection was instead the San Ramon saltworks of Chiclana de la Frontera. [details]
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