original description
(of Euphrosine Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, J.B. (1818). [volume 5 of] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. <em>Paris, Deterville.</em> vol 5: 612 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 331 [details]
taxonomy source
McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A monograph of British Annelids. vol.1. pt.2. Polychaeta Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. Ray Society of London, 1(l2): 215-442., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38577949
page(s): 233; note: McIntosh (1900) gives a good account of 'Euphrosyne' up to that date, including long accounts of E. foliosa and E. armadillo, and new species E. robertsoni [details]
basis of record
Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 64; note: as Euphrosyne, an incorrect spelling as Lamarck published earlier arguably a misspelling of a goddess name as Euphrosine [details]
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]
additional source
Fauvel, P. (1953). The fauna of India including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya : Annelida, Polychaeta. The Indian Press, Ltd, Allahabad. xii and 507 p., available online at http://archive.org/details/FBIPolychaeta [details]
From editor or global species database
Homonymy If not a misspelling of the original usage, Euphrosyne would in any case be a junior homonym to Euphrosyne Meigen 1800 in Diptera. [details]
Spelling Euphrosyne is the usual transliterated spelling of the name of the Greek Goddess, but Lamarck (1818) used Euphrosine in his original description, when he copied Savigny's text on Euphrosyne. The letter Y was absent in old Latin, and rare subsequently, so evidently Lamarck deliberately preferred a spelling replacing the 'y' with an 'i'. Alternatively, Lamarck knew Euphrosyne was preoccupied. Many later authors disregarded Lamarck's spelling and used Euphrosyne instead, perhaps following Savigny's earlier use in the 'Description de l'Égypte', a then unpublished manuscript. But Euphrosyne for Polychaeta would be unusable as a junior homonym, so Lamarck's change to Euphrosine has saved the name from oblivion. [details]