WoRMS name details

Euniphysa megalodus (Grube, 1878)

1305656  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1305656)

uncertain > taxon inquirendum (indeterminable fide Lu & Fauchald, 2000)
Species
Eunice megalodus Grube, 1878 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Eunice megalodus Grube, 1878) 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): 156 [details]   
Type locality contained in Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Status  Lu & Fauchald (2000) restate what is known about Eunice megalodus, and they place it as indeterminable as no specimen is...  
Status  Lu & Fauchald (2000) restate what is known about Eunice megalodus, and they place it as indeterminable as no specimen is "available" (no further details are given on possible museum searches) and "The information available is not sufficient to distinguish the species from other species in this genus and [the species]is here considered indeterminable." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Euniphysa megalodus (Grube, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1305656 on 2024-03-29
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original description  (of Eunice megalodus Grube, 1878) 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): 156 [details]   

taxonomy source Lu, Hua; Fauchald, Kristian. (2000). A phylogenetic and biogeographic study of <i>Euniphysa</i> (Eunicidae, Polychaeta). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 34(7): 997-1044., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930050020113
page(s): 1031; note: Lu & Fauchald (2000) placed E. megalodus as indeterminable [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Status  Lu & Fauchald (2000) restate what is known about Eunice megalodus, and they place it as indeterminable as no specimen is "available" (no further details are given on possible museum searches) and "The information available is not sufficient to distinguish the species from other species in this genus and [the species]is here considered indeterminable." [details]