WoRMS taxon details
Longicarpus Hutchings & Murray, 1984
325258 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325258)
accepted
Genus
Longicarpus glandulus Hutchings & Murray, 1984 accepted as Longicarpus modestus (Quatrefages, 1866) (type by original designation)
- Species Longicarpus modestus (Quatrefages, 1866)
- Species Longicarpus nodus Hutchings, 1990
- Species Longicarpus glandulus Hutchings & Murray, 1984 accepted as Longicarpus modestus (Quatrefages, 1866) (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Murray, Anna. (1984). Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 3: 1-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.3.1984.101
page(s): 97 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 97 [details] Available for editors [request]
Etymology The generic name is composed by the words longi-, the combining form of the Latin adjective longus and meaning 'long' or...
Etymology The generic name is composed by the words longi-, the combining form of the Latin adjective longus and meaning 'long' or 'extended', and the New Latin noun of Greek origin carpus, meaning 'wrist' or designating the 'wrist bones', and refers to the long handled uncini present in the anterior thoracic segments. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Longicarpus Hutchings & Murray, 1984. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325258 on 2024-03-19
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original description
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Murray, Anna. (1984). Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 3: 1-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.3.1984.101
page(s): 97 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1988). The Amphitritinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 40(1): 1-60., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.150 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 97 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1988). The Amphitritinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 40(1): 1-60., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.40.1988.150 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Hutchings & Murray (1984: 97): ''Prostomium and peristomium not expanded or proboscis-shaped. Lateral lobes poorly developed. Twenty three pairs of notosetae, with serrated tips, from segment 4. Neurosetae from setiger 2; uncini arranged in double rows from setiger 7; anterior thoracic uncini with well-crested head, and long, well-chitinised shafts, shaft lost by mid-thoracic segments. Three pairs of branched branchiae on segments 2, 3, 4.'' [details]Etymology The generic name is composed by the words longi-, the combining form of the Latin adjective longus and meaning 'long' or 'extended', and the New Latin noun of Greek origin carpus, meaning 'wrist' or designating the 'wrist bones', and refers to the long handled uncini present in the anterior thoracic segments. [details]