Deep-Sea source details
Up to the present our knowledge of Japanese Polychaeta has been limited to the following four sources:
1870. E. Grube. Neue Anneliden aus Japan.
1879. E. v. Marenzeller. Südjapanische Anneliden.
1885. W. C. McIntosh. Challenger Report.
1903. J. P. Moore. Polychaeta from Japan, Kamtschatka and Bering Sea.
Limiting our attention to the Polychaeta Errantia alone, the number of species belonging to that group and made known by the above mentioned authors from the Japanese waters, amounts to seventy-fouir in all. Of this number, eighteen species are those that have been previously hnown from other parts of the world, while the rest (fifty-six) were described as new. From among the latter must be deducted the two, viz., Eunice congesta Marenz. and Glycera decipiens Marenz., which in my opinion are indubitably synonymous with the older species E. indica Kinberg and G. goesi Mgr. respectively and which therefore have to be added among the former.
Mv own researches have revealed fifty more species not recorded before from Japan. Of these thirty-two seem to be new to science.
Coelobranchus Izuka, 1912 accepted as Iphitime Marenzeller, 1902 (original description)
Coelobranchus papillosus Izuka, 1912 accepted as Iphitime doederleini Marenzeller, 1902 (original description)
Eulalia viridis (Linnaeus, 1767) (additional source)
Eumida sanguinea (Örsted, 1843) (additional source)
Eunice kobiensis McIntosh, 1885 (additional source)
Eunice northioidea Moore, 1903 (additional source)
Eunice tibiana (Pourtalès, 1867) (additional source)
Eunice vittata (Delle Chiaje, 1828) (additional source)
Glycera capitata Örsted, 1842 (additional source)
Glycera goesi Malmgren, 1867 accepted as Glycera unicornis Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Glycera robusta Ehlers, 1868 (additional source)
Glycera tesselata Grube, 1863 (additional source)
Harmothoe imbricata (Linnaeus, 1767) (additional source)
Hyalinoecia tubicola (O.F. Müller, 1776) (additional source)
Laetmatonice producta accepted as Laetmonice producta Grube, 1877 (additional source)
Leanira areolata McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Neoleanira areolata (McIntosh, 1885) (source of synonymy)
Leanira japonica McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Sthenolepis japonica (McIntosh, 1885) (source of synonymy)
Lumbriconereis bifurcata McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Lumbrineris bifurcata McIntosh, 1885 (additional source)
Nephthys ciliata [auctt.] accepted as Nephtys ciliata (Müller, 1788) (additional source)
Onuphis conchylega M. Sars, 1835 accepted as Nothria conchylega (Sars, 1835) (additional source)
Onuphis geophiliformis (Moore, 1903) (new combination reference)
Phyllodoce groenlandica Örsted, 1842 (additional source)
Polynoella levisetosa McIntosh, 1885 (additional source)
Sthenolepis areolata (McIntosh, 1885) accepted as Neoleanira areolata (McIntosh, 1885) (additional source)
Sthenolepis japonica (McIntosh, 1885) (additional source)
Syllis ramosa McIntosh, 1879 (additional source)
The authorship of the genus was considered to be "Grube & Ørsted in Grube" by Salazar-Vallejo & Eibye-Jacobsen ... [details]
Izuka (1912) placed Coelobranchus in Eunicidae, in which also at the time he included Dorvilleidae genera and other ... [details]
The specific epithet speciosa is the feminine form of the Latin adjective speciosus, meaning 'beautiful' or ... [details]
Not stated but named Coelobranchus possibly because the branchiae are hollow with an internal connection to the ... [details]
The species is named in honour of Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri (b. Edo, Japan, 15 January 1857 - d. 16 September 1901), ... [details]
"“This species was found creeping on the gills of Macrocheira kaempferi De Haan brought up from a depth of ... [details]
Pacific Ocean, Japan, "In a tide- pool near Misaki in Prov. Sagami, August 17th, 1906" (Izuka, 1912: 184) ... [details]
Namerikawa, Sea of Japan, ~36°46'N 137°20'W [details]
Sagami Bay, Japan, commensal on deep-sea Majoidea crab Macrocheira kaempferi [details]
Inanze Bank, off Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 26.3º, 127.6º). [details]
