WoRMS taxon details
Euniphysa Wesenberg-Lund, 1949
324704 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324704)
accepted
Genus
Euniphysa aculeata Wesenberg-Lund, 1949 (type by monotypy)
Heterophysa Shen & Wu, 1991 · unaccepted
Paraeuniphysa Wu & He, 1988 · unaccepted
- Species Euniphysa aculeata Wesenberg-Lund, 1949
- Species Euniphysa auriculata (Treadwell, 1900)
- Species Euniphysa falciseta (Shen & Wu, 1991)
- Species Euniphysa filibranchia Lu & Fauchald, 2000
- Species Euniphysa italica Cantone & Gravina, 1991
- Species Euniphysa jeffreysii (McIntosh, 1903)
- Species Euniphysa quadridentata Lu & Fauchald, 2000
- Species Euniphysa spinea (Miura, 1977)
- Species Euniphysa taiwanensis (Wu & He, 1988)
- Species Euniphysa tridontesa (Shen & Wu, 1991)
- Species Euniphysa misakiensis Miura, 1987 accepted as Eunice misakiensis (Miura, 1987)
- Species Euniphysa oculata Wu & Sun, 1979 accepted as Euniphysa spinea (Miura, 1977)
- Species Euniphysa tubicola (Treadwell, 1922) accepted as Eunice tubicola (Treadwell, 1922) (superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Euniphysa tubifex (Crossland, 1904) accepted as Eunice tubifex Crossland, 1904
- Species Euniphysa unicusa Shen & Wu, 1991 accepted as Euniphysa aculeata Wesenberg-Lund, 1949
- Species Euniphysa megalodus (Grube, 1878) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminable fide Lu & Fauchald, 2000)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Wesenberg-Lund, Elise. (1949). Polychaetes of the Iranian Gulf. <em>Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran.</em> 4: 247-400.
page(s): 305-310; note: a joint genus plus species description for Euniphysa aculeata [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 305-310; note: a joint genus plus species description for Euniphysa aculeata [details] Available for editors
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Etymology Not directly stated but a combination of Eunice and Marphysa, both feminine names. Wesenberg-Lund (1949: 310) wrote: "The...
Etymology Not directly stated but a combination of Eunice and Marphysa, both feminine names. Wesenberg-Lund (1949: 310) wrote: "The presence of nuchal cirri points towards Eunice, but the shape of the compound setae towards Marphysa; on account of this the new generic name Euniphysa was established." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Euniphysa Wesenberg-Lund, 1949. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324704 on 2024-04-19
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original description
Wesenberg-Lund, Elise. (1949). Polychaetes of the Iranian Gulf. <em>Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran.</em> 4: 247-400.
page(s): 305-310; note: a joint genus plus species description for Euniphysa aculeata [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Heterophysa Shen & Wu, 1991) Shen, Shoupeng; Wu, Bao Ling. (1991 [1990 in Chinese?]). A new family of Polychaeta- Euniphysidae. <em>Acta Oceanologica Sinica.</em> 10(1): 129-140., available online at http://www.hyxb.org.cn/aosen/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=19910110&flag=1 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Paraeuniphysa Wu & He, 1988) Wu, Qiquan and He, Minghai 1988. [A new genus and new species of Eunicidae from Taiwan Strait.]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 13(2): 123-126. [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 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 305-310; note: a joint genus plus species description for Euniphysa aculeata [details] Available for editors
[request] original description (of Heterophysa Shen & Wu, 1991) Shen, Shoupeng; Wu, Bao Ling. (1991 [1990 in Chinese?]). A new family of Polychaeta- Euniphysidae. <em>Acta Oceanologica Sinica.</em> 10(1): 129-140., available online at http://www.hyxb.org.cn/aosen/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=19910110&flag=1 [details] Available for editors
[request] original description (of Paraeuniphysa Wu & He, 1988) Wu, Qiquan and He, Minghai 1988. [A new genus and new species of Eunicidae from Taiwan Strait.]. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 13(2): 123-126. [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 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis (from Lu & Fauchald 2000) "Eunicids with a pair of palps and three antennae, all slender and tapering without distinct articulations. Peristomial cirri present. Anterior jaw elements (Mx-III, IV and V) fang-like with slender, pointed tips, number of teeth in each piece is low (two to four). Branchiae present. Notopodia with a narrow cirrophore and a tapering cirrostyle; base of cirrostyles distinctly enlarged and glandular at least in some median chaetigers, sometimes forming distinct pendant lobes. A small, fleshy knob present dorsal to aciculae on the acicular lobe. Limbate chaetae, pectinate chaetae, aciculae, subacicular hooks and compound spinigers always present; pseudocompound spinigers and compound falcigers present in some species." [details]Etymology Not directly stated but a combination of Eunice and Marphysa, both feminine names. Wesenberg-Lund (1949: 310) wrote: "The presence of nuchal cirri points towards Eunice, but the shape of the compound setae towards Marphysa; on account of this the new generic name Euniphysa was established." [details]
Grammatical gender feminine, indicated by treatment by original author [details]
From other sources
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
