WoRMS name details
Mediomastus cirripes Ben-Eliahu, 1976
129891 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129891)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (incompletely known (fide Warren et al. 1994))
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ben Eliahu, N.M. (1976). Polychaete cryptofauna from rims of similar intertidal vermetid reefs on the Mediterranean coast of Israel and in the gulf of Elat: Sedentaria. <em>Israel Journal of Zoology.</em> 25: 121-155. [details]
Holotype BMNH ZB.1976. 161, geounit Israel
, Note coast at Shavei Zion, north of Haifa, Israel,...
Holotype BMNH ZB.1976. 161, geounit Israel [details]
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Type locality coast at Shavei Zion, north of Haifa, Israel, 32.9833° 35.0833° (32°59'N 35°05'E) [details]
Type material Known for a single specimen. Holotype is 3.3 mm and consists of an anterior end with a complete thorax and 6 abdominal setigers, but is a gravid female with eggs still attached in gonad. [details]
Status Warren et al (1996: 245) suggests M cirripes is sufficiently incompletely known to be a species inquirenda, but also state...
Status Warren et al (1996: 245) suggests M cirripes is sufficiently incompletely known to be a species inquirenda, but also state "locality and the habitat, however, suggest that this might be a separate species" and "holotype differs from specimens of other species of Mediomastus by the morphology of the hooks on thorax and abdomen; the shape of the setigers including the thorax/abdomen boundary; and the prominent palpode." Thus the species has a holotype, and is currently distinct (distinguishable) from congeners, but is incompletely known [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Mediomastus cirripes Ben-Eliahu, 1976. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129891 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Ben Eliahu, N.M. (1976). Polychaete cryptofauna from rims of similar intertidal vermetid reefs on the Mediterranean coast of Israel and in the gulf of Elat: Sedentaria. <em>Israel Journal of Zoology.</em> 25: 121-155. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Warren, Lynda M.; Hutchings, Patricia A.; Doyle, Sue. (1994). A revision of the genus <i>Mediomastus</i> Hartman, 1944 (Polychaeta: Capitellidae). <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 46(3): 227-256., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.46.1994.6
page(s): 244-245, figs. 2f, 12, tables 1-2; note: suggested to be a species inquirenda [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 244-245, figs. 2f, 12, tables 1-2; note: suggested to be a species inquirenda [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BMNH ZB.1976. 161, geounit Israel [details]
From editor or global species database
Habitat Associated with vermetid reef of Dendropoma [details]Status Warren et al (1996: 245) suggests M cirripes is sufficiently incompletely known to be a species inquirenda, but also state "locality and the habitat, however, suggest that this might be a separate species" and "holotype differs from specimens of other species of Mediomastus by the morphology of the hooks on thorax and abdomen; the shape of the setigers including the thorax/abdomen boundary; and the prominent palpode." Thus the species has a holotype, and is currently distinct (distinguishable) from congeners, but is incompletely known [details]
Type locality coast at Shavei Zion, north of Haifa, Israel, 32.9833° 35.0833° (32°59'N 35°05'E) [details]
Type material Known for a single specimen. Holotype is 3.3 mm and consists of an anterior end with a complete thorax and 6 abdominal setigers, but is a gravid female with eggs still attached in gonad. [details]
