129415 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129415)
Parapar et al (October 2021) summarized the past literature as follows: "Gravier (1905) suggested P. ehrenbergi, P. dubius, P. pallidus and “probably P. ceylonensis” as synonyms of P. pictus; this opinion was followed by Augener (1914). Fauvel (1919, 1925, 1927, 1933a, b) supported the idea of a worldwide distribution for P. pictus and proposed P. ceylonensis and P. collaris as synonyms of the former (Fauvel 1932). Later, Hartman (1959) raised to 13 [actually 12] the number of synonyms of P. pictus. However, Purschke et al. (1995) suggested that only the European species are synonyms of P. pictus; Magalhães et al. (2019) also stated the need to “revise the P. pictus species complex”, [an] opinion also followed by Blake & Maciolek (2020) and Parapar et al. (February 2021)."
An overview of the family by Blake & Maciolek (2020, Handbook of Zoology) listed the following Polyophthalmus as likely valid, although the background evidence for this was not published.
Polyophthalmus australis Grube, 1869 Cape York, Australia
Polyophthalmus ceylonensis Kükenthal, 1887 Sri Lanka
Polyophthalmus collaris Michaelsen, 1892 Sri Lanka
Polyophthalmus longisetosus Michaelsen, 1892 Sri Lanka
Polyophthalmus mauliola Magalhães, Rizzo and Bailey-Brock, 2019 Mamala Bay, Hawaii
Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) France
Polyophthalmus qingdaoensis Purschke, Ding and Müller, 1995 Qingdao, Yellow Sea
Polyophthalmus striatus Kükenthal, 1887 Hong Kong
Polyophthalmus translucens Hartman, 1960 Southern California
Parapar et al (October 2021) included in their identification key, as probably valid, P. pictus plus P. qingdaoensis, P. striatus, P. mauliola, P. ceylonensis, P. collaris, P. longisetous, P. australis, and their new species P. zhadanae, whereas the following were considered to be still P. pictus synonyms: P. pictus pontica, P. agilis, P. dubius, P. robertianae, P. incertus, P. floridanus, P. ehrenbergi, P. pallidus, and P. papillatus. P. translucens Hartman 1960 [q.v,] is currently suggested to be a subjective synonym (fide Sene Silva, 2007, unpublished thesis) of Ophelina abranchiata Støp-Bowitz, 1948, although note the respective type localities are geographically separated (different oceans), and Sene Silva gave no evidence to support his placement. [details]
Language | Name | |
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French | polyphthalmiens | [details] |