WoRMS taxon details
Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016
884676 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:884676)
accepted
Genus
Monticellina heterochaeta Laubier, 1961 accepted as Kirkegaardia heterochaeta (Laubier, 1961) (type by monotypy)
Monticellina Laubier, 1961 · unaccepted (junior homonym)
- Species Kirkegaardia acunai (Dean & Blake, 2009)
- Species Kirkegaardia annulosa (Hartman, 1965)
- Species Kirkegaardia antelaxa (Dean & Blake, 2009)
- Species Kirkegaardia anterobranchiata (Magalhães & Bailey-Brock, 2013)
- Species Kirkegaardia antonbruunae Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia aphelocephala (Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
- Species Kirkegaardia araiotrachela Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia baptisteae (Blake, 1991)
- Species Kirkegaardia blakei Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia brigitteae Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia brisae Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia carinata Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia carolina Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia carrikeri (Dean & Blake, 2009)
- Species Kirkegaardia chilensis Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia cristata Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia cryptica (Blake, 1996)
- Species Kirkegaardia dorsobranchialis (Kirkegaard, 1959)
- Species Kirkegaardia dutchae Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia elongata (Dean & Blake, 2009)
- Species Kirkegaardia filiformis Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Kirkegaardia fragilis Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia franciscana Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia giribeti (Dean & Blake, 2009)
- Species Kirkegaardia glabra Blake, 2023
- Species Kirkegaardia goytaca Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia hampsoni Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia hanaumaensis (Magalhães & Bailey-Brock, 2013)
- Species Kirkegaardia helenae Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia heroae Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia heterochaeta (Laubier, 1961)
- Species Kirkegaardia jongo Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia jumarsi Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia kladara Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia lueldredgei (Magalhães & Bailey-Brock, 2015)
- Species Kirkegaardia luticastella (Jumars, 1975)
- Species Kirkegaardia marypetersenae (Lezzi, Çinar & Giangrande, 2016)
- Species Kirkegaardia medusa Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia morae (Elias, Rivero & Orensanz, 2017)
- Species Kirkegaardia neotesselata Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia nupem Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia olgahartmanae Blake, 2016
- Species Kirkegaardia panamaensis Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Kirkegaardia papaveroi Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
- Species Kirkegaardia playita Blake & Dean, 2019
- Species Kirkegaardia secunda (Banse & Hobson, 1968)
- Species Kirkegaardia serracroochaeta Atchuthan & Desai, 2017
- Species Kirkegaardia serrata (Eliason, 1962)
- Species Kirkegaardia serratiseta (Banse & Hobson, 1968)
- Species Kirkegaardia setosa (Dean & Blake, 2009)
- Species Kirkegaardia siblina (Blake, 1996)
- Species Kirkegaardia tesselata (Hartman, 1960)
- Species Kirkegaardia zafirae Freitas, Ribeiro & Ruta, 2022
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1
page(s): 5; note: replacement for junior homonym Monticellina Laubier, 1961 [details]
page(s): 5; note: replacement for junior homonym Monticellina Laubier, 1961 [details]
Etymology Author: "named for the late Dr. Jorgen B. Kirkegaard, polychaete specialist and deep-sea biologist of the Zoological Museum...
Nomenclature The genus Monticellina Laubier, 1961 is preoccupied by Monticellina Westblad, 1953 in Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela. Blake...
Etymology Author: "named for the late Dr. Jorgen B. Kirkegaard, polychaete specialist and deep-sea biologist of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Dr. Kirkegaard described the first of the bitentaculate cirratulids having denticulate capillary setae: Cirratulus dorsobranchialis." Not stated by the author is that although Kirkegaardia is named after a man, the genus gender is feminine, as was Monticellina. Thus no species group names gender changes in spelling are required in transitioning from Monticellina to Kirkegaardia. [details]
Nomenclature The genus Monticellina Laubier, 1961 is preoccupied by Monticellina Westblad, 1953 in Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela. Blake...
Nomenclature The genus Monticellina Laubier, 1961 is preoccupied by Monticellina Westblad, 1953 in Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela. Blake (2016:5) created Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016, nomen novum, to replace it. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=884676 on 2024-09-08
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original description
Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1
page(s): 5; note: replacement for junior homonym Monticellina Laubier, 1961 [details]
original description (of Monticellina Laubier, 1961) Laubier, L. (1961 [1960 vol]). Monticellina heterochaeta n.g. n.sp., Cténodrilidé (polychètes sédentaires) des vases cotières de Banyuls-sur-Mer. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 11(4): 601-604.
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Freitas, Roberta; Ribeiro, Rannyele Passos; Ruta, Christine. (2022). Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016 (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from Southeastern Brazil with description of nine new species. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 17(5): e0265336, 1-27., available online at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/citation?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265336 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 5; note: replacement for junior homonym Monticellina Laubier, 1961 [details]
original description (of Monticellina Laubier, 1961) Laubier, L. (1961 [1960 vol]). Monticellina heterochaeta n.g. n.sp., Cténodrilidé (polychètes sédentaires) des vases cotières de Banyuls-sur-Mer. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 11(4): 601-604.
page(s): 601-602 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Freitas, Roberta; Ribeiro, Rannyele Passos; Ruta, Christine. (2022). Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016 (Annelida: Cirratulidae) from Southeastern Brazil with description of nine new species. <em>PLOS ONE.</em> 17(5): e0265336, 1-27., available online at https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/citation?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265336 [details] Available for editors
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Etymology Author: "named for the late Dr. Jorgen B. Kirkegaard, polychaete specialist and deep-sea biologist of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen. Dr. Kirkegaard described the first of the bitentaculate cirratulids having denticulate capillary setae: Cirratulus dorsobranchialis." Not stated by the author is that although Kirkegaardia is named after a man, the genus gender is feminine, as was Monticellina. Thus no species group names gender changes in spelling are required in transitioning from Monticellina to Kirkegaardia. [details]Grammatical gender Although Kirkegaard was male Kirkegaardia is feminine, as was Monticellina. [details]
Nomenclature The genus Monticellina Laubier, 1961 is preoccupied by Monticellina Westblad, 1953 in Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela. Blake (2016:5) created Kirkegaardia Blake, 2016, nomen novum, to replace it. [details]