Ehlers, E. (1874). Annulata nova vel minus cognita in Expeditione 'Porcupine' capta. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 4, 13: 292-298., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342680 page(s): 295; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
Type locality contained in North East Atlantic
type locality contained in North East Atlantic [details]
, Note Celtic Sea, west of Brittany, 48.8333, ...
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Type locality Celtic Sea, west of Brittany, 48.8333, -11.1166, 1326 m (Ehlers: "48° 50' lat. bor., 11° 7' long, occid., fundo 725 orgyiarum"), eastern Atlantic Ocean [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339411 on 2024-05-01
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339411 on 2024-05-01
original descriptionEhlers, E. (1874). Annulata nova vel minus cognita in Expeditione 'Porcupine' capta. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 4, 13: 292-298., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342680 page(s): 295; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
redescriptionEhlers, E. (1875). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Verticalverbreitung der Borstenwürmer im Meere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 25: 1-102, plates I-IV., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45143254 page(s): 49, plate 3 figures 11-21; note: Although labelled as a new species the description as 'brevibrachiata' is effectively a redescription as Ehlers (1874) had already briefly named and described the specimens, using the spelling 'brevib...
Although labelled as a new species the description as 'brevibrachiata' is effectively a redescription as Ehlers (1874) had already briefly named and described the specimens, using the spelling 'brevibranchiata'.
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Publication date Ehlers published Diopatra brevibrachiata as a new species twice, using two spellings, thus causing some confusion subsequently. There was a Latin description without figures in Ehlers (1874: 295) with the spelling as 'brevibranchiata' and the next year a full description in German of three and a half pages, with a figure in plate 3 in Ehlers (1875: 49) as 'brevibrachiata'. The 1874 date has priority, but the spelling issue is still confused. Hartman's (1965: 113) listing as a recombination in Rhamphobrachium uses the wrong date (1875). She also spells the species name as 'brevibranchiata' which was the spelling Ehlers used in 1874, not in 1875. [details] Spelling Ehlers (1874) first used 'brevibranchiata' and then (Ehlers, 1875 and 1877) he used 'brevibrachiata'. Strictly 'brevibranchiata' should be the spelling, but 'brevibrachiata' from the full description of Ehlers has become the spelling mainly used, for example in Paxton (1986). Ehlers described both Diopatra socialis and Diopatra brevibranchiata in 1874 as new species in an English language journal, and in 1875 he described them again in a German language journal. This duplication was not unusual at the time, but unfortunately he changed the spelling of the second species to 'brevibrachiata' (used more than once). Thus there are no consequences for the nomenclature of D socialis, but a problem was created for D. brevibranchiata. WoRMS currently uses 'brevibrachiata' but the usage probably requires re-examination by an onuphid expert. [details] Type locality Celtic Sea, west of Brittany, 48.8333, -11.1166, 1326 m (Ehlers: "48° 50' lat. bor., 11° 7' long, occid., fundo 725 orgyiarum"), eastern Atlantic Ocean [details]