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Magelona F. Müller, 1858
129341 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129341)
accepted
Genus
Magelona papillicornis F. Müller, 1858 (type by monotypy)
Maea Johnston, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Meredithia Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Rhynophylla Carrington, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Magelona agoensis Kitamori, 1967
- Species Magelona alba Taylor, Mortimer & Jimi, 2022
- Species Magelona alexandrae Magalhães, Bailey-Brock & Watling, 2018
- Species Magelona alleni Wilson, 1958
- Species Magelona americana Hartman, 1965
- Species Magelona annulata Hartmann-Schröder, 1962
- Species Magelona anuheone Magalhães, Bailey-Brock & Watling, 2018
- Species Magelona armatis Taylor, Mortimer & Jimi, 2022
- Species Magelona berkeleyi Jones, 1971
- Species Magelona bizkaiensis (Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001)
- Species Magelona boninensis Taylor, Mortimer & Jimi, 2022
- Species Magelona borowskii (Fiege, Knebelsberger & Meißner In Meißner et al, 2023)
- Species Magelona brachypalpata Mortimer, Blake & Harrendence, 2021
- Species Magelona californica Hartman, 1944
- Species Magelona capax Hartman, 1965
- Species Magelona capensis Day, 1961
- Species Magelona cepiceps Mortimer & Mackie, 2006
- Species Magelona cerae Hartman & Reish, 1950
- Species Magelona cincta Ehlers, 1908
- Species Magelona cinthyae Magalhães, Bailey-Brock & Watling, 2018
- Species Magelona conversa Mortimer & Mackie, 2003
- Species Magelona cornuta Wesenberg-Lund, 1949
- Species Magelona crenulata Bolívar & Lana, 1986
- Species Magelona crenulifrons Gallardo, 1968
- Species Magelona dakini Jones, 1978
- Species Magelona debeerei Clarke, Paterson, Florence & Gibbons, 2010
- Species Magelona ekapa Mortimer & Clarke, 2024
- Species Magelona equilamellae Harmelin, 1964
- Species Magelona falcifera Mortimer & Mackie, 2003
- Species Magelona fasciata Mortimer, Kongsrud & Willassen, 2021
- Species Magelona fauchaldi Shakouri, Mortimer & Dehani, 2017
- Species Magelona filiformis Wilson, 1959
- Species Magelona gemmata Mortimer & Mackie, 2003
- Species Magelona guineensis Mortimer, Kongsrud & Willassen, 2021
- Species Magelona hartmanae Jones, 1978
- Species Magelona hobsonae Jones, 1978
- Species Magelona japonica Okuda, 1937
- Species Magelona johnstoni Fiege, Licher & Mackie, 2000
- Species Magelona jonesi Hartmann-Schröder, 1980
- Species Magelona kamala Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona koreana Okuda, 1937
- Species Magelona lenticulata Gallardo, 1968
- Species Magelona longicornis Johnson, 1901
- Species Magelona lusitanica Mortimer, Gil & Fiege, 2011
- Species Magelona mackiei Mortimer, Kongsrud & Willassen, 2021
- Species Magelona magnahamata Aguado & San Martín, 2004
- Species Magelona mahensis Mortimer & Mackie, 2006
- Species Magelona marianae Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000
- Species Magelona methae Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona mickminni Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona mirabilis (Johnston, 1865)
- Species Magelona montera Mortimer, Cassà, Martin & Gil, 2012
- Species Magelona nanseni Mortimer, Kongsrud & Willassen, 2021
- Species Magelona nonatoi Bolívar & Lana, 1986
- Species Magelona noppi Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona obockensis Gravier, 1905
- Species Magelona pacifica Monro, 1933
- Species Magelona papillicornis F. Müller, 1858
- Species Magelona parochilis Zhou & Mortimer, 2013
- Species Magelona paulolanai Magalhães, Bailey-Brock & Watling, 2018
- Species Magelona pectinata Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona petersenae Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona pettiboneae Jones, 1963
- Species Magelona phyllisae Jones, 1963
- Species Magelona picta Mortimer, Kongsrud & Willassen, 2021
- Species Magelona pitelkai Hartman, 1944
- Species Magelona polydentata Jones, 1963
- Species Magelona posterelongata Bolívar & Lana, 1986
- Species Magelona pulchella Mohammad, 1970
- Species Magelona pygmaea Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona riojai Jones, 1963
- Species Magelona rosea Moore, 1907
- Species Magelona sacculata Hartman, 1961
- Species Magelona sachalinensis Buzhinskaja, 1985
- Species Magelona sinbadi Mortimer, Cassà, Martin & Gil, 2012
- Species Magelona spinifera (Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000)
- Species Magelona symmetrica Mortimer & Mackie, 2006
- Species Magelona tehuanensis Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000
- Species Magelona tinae Nateewathana & Hylleberg, 1991
- Species Magelona uebelackerae (Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000)
- Species Magelona variolamellata Bolívar & Lana, 1986
- Species Magelona wilsoni Glémarec, 1967
- Species Magelona alata Reish, 1965 accepted as Magelona longicornis Johnson, 1901 (subjective synonym)
- Species Magelona heteropoda Mohammad, 1973 accepted as Magelona obockensis Gravier, 1905 (subjective synonym)
- Species Magelona papillicornis McIntosh, 1878 non F. Müller, 1858 accepted as Magelona mirabilis (Johnston, 1865) (mixture of M. mirabilis and M. johnstoni)
- Species Magelona papilliformis [auctt. misspelling for papillicornis] accepted as Magelona papillicornis F. Müller, 1858 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling, incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Magelona minuta Eliason, 1962 (uncertain > nomen dubium, unreplaced junior primary homonym to Magelona filiformis minuta Wilson, 1959)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Müller, F. (1858). Einiges über die Annelidenfauna der Insel Santa Catharina an der brasilianischen Küste. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 24(1): 211-220, plates VI-VII. (Aus einer brieflichen Mittheilung an Prof. Grube)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7460059
page(s): 215 [details]
page(s): 215 [details]
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Etymology Not known. However, Magelona (feminine) is a 1535 German spelling of the name of a princess (beautiful Magelone, daughter...
Etymology Not known. However, Magelona (feminine) is a 1535 German spelling of the name of a princess (beautiful Magelone, daughter of the King of Naples) who appears in the prose and verse tale "Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence" (Love-Story of the Beautiful Magelone and Count Peter of Provence). it relates a German version of an anonymous tale originally in the Occitan language (of S. France, Italy, Spain) dating back to at least the 13th century. Thus it is likely that Magelona was a name in some use as a German girl's name in the 1850s when Müller adopted it as a genus, or was otherwise known to Müller through encountering the folk-tale. The tale (in German) is available at Gutenberg org [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Magelona F. Müller, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129341 on 2024-08-27
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original description
Müller, F. (1858). Einiges über die Annelidenfauna der Insel Santa Catharina an der brasilianischen Küste. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin.</em> 24(1): 211-220, plates VI-VII. (Aus einer brieflichen Mittheilung an Prof. Grube)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7460059
page(s): 215 [details]
original description (of Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001) Aguirrezabalaga, Florencio; Ceberio, Argiloa; Fiege, Dieter. (2001). <i>Octomagelona bizkaiensis</i> (Polychaeta: Magelonidae) a new genus and species from the Capbreton Canyon (Bay of Biscay, north-east Atlantic). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 81(2): 221-224., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315401003678
page(s): 221 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Maea Johnston, 1865) Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 278 [details]
original description (of Meredithia Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000) Hernández-Alcántara, Pablo; Solís-Weiss, Vivianne. (2000). Magelonidae from the Mexican Pacific and northern Gulf of Mexico, with the description of a new genus (<i>Meredithia</i>) and four new species. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 67(1): 625-644., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2000/00000067/00000001/art00050
page(s): 637; note: for new species Meridithia spinifera [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Rhynophylla Carrington, 1865) Carrington, Benjamin. (1865). On the chaetopod annelides of the Southport sands. <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.</em> 4: 176-188., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48862346
page(s): 185; note: Mentioned only and not used as a valid name [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [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 Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
status source Fitzhugh, Kirk; Mortimer, Kate; Brasil, Ana C. dos Santos. (2024). The monophyly of <em>Magelona</em> F. Müller, 1858 (Polychaeta, Magelonidae): Comments on Meißner <em>et al</em>.'s (2023) reinstatement of <em>Octomagelona</em> Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5497(4): 496-504., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5497.4.2 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Mortimer, Kate; Mills, Kimberley; Jordana, Esther; Pinedo, Susana; Gil, João. (2020). A further review of European Magelonidae (Annelida), including descriptions of <em>Magelona equilamellae</em> and <em>Magelona filiformis</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4767(1): 89-114., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4767.1.4
note: key to European species [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Mortimer, Kate; Blake, James A.; Harrendence, Kelsey. (2021). A review of the Magelonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of Northeast America, including a description of a new species and re-descriptions of Magelona riojai and Magelona sacculata. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 134(1): 209-242., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-134.1.209
note: Includes a dichotomous identification key to the known magelonid species of the northeastern American coast and a worldwide pictorial identification key to the ‘M. mirabilis’ group of magelonids [details] Available for editors
[request]
identification resource Taylor, Abbie; Mortimer, Kate; Jimi, Naoto. (2022). Unearthing the diversity of Japanese Magelona (Annelida: Magelonidae); three species new to science, and a redescription of Magelona japonica. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5196(4): 451-491., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5196.4.1
note: key for Japan [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Mortimer, Kate; Clarke, Dylan T. (2024). Untangling the Magelonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of southern Africa, including the description of a new species. <em>African Zoology.</em> efirst: 1-28., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2024.2311085
page(s): 24, figure 15, table 1; note: key to southern African species of Magelona with photos and table of characters. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 215 [details]
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original description (of Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001) Aguirrezabalaga, Florencio; Ceberio, Argiloa; Fiege, Dieter. (2001). <i>Octomagelona bizkaiensis</i> (Polychaeta: Magelonidae) a new genus and species from the Capbreton Canyon (Bay of Biscay, north-east Atlantic). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 81(2): 221-224., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315401003678
page(s): 221 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Maea Johnston, 1865) Johnston, G. (1865). A catalogue of the British non-parasitical worms in the collection of the British Museum. <em>[book].</em> 1-365. British Museum. London. [See also separate entry for Baird supplement]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12291
page(s): 278 [details]
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original description (of Meredithia Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000) Hernández-Alcántara, Pablo; Solís-Weiss, Vivianne. (2000). Magelonidae from the Mexican Pacific and northern Gulf of Mexico, with the description of a new genus (<i>Meredithia</i>) and four new species. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 67(1): 625-644., available online at https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2000/00000067/00000001/art00050
page(s): 637; note: for new species Meridithia spinifera [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
original description (of Rhynophylla Carrington, 1865) Carrington, Benjamin. (1865). On the chaetopod annelides of the Southport sands. <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.</em> 4: 176-188., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48862346
page(s): 185; note: Mentioned only and not used as a valid name [details]
![OpenAccess publication OpenAccess publication](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/openaccess.png)
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [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 Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
status source Fitzhugh, Kirk; Mortimer, Kate; Brasil, Ana C. dos Santos. (2024). The monophyly of <em>Magelona</em> F. Müller, 1858 (Polychaeta, Magelonidae): Comments on Meißner <em>et al</em>.'s (2023) reinstatement of <em>Octomagelona</em> Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5497(4): 496-504., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5497.4.2 [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
identification resource Mortimer, Kate; Mills, Kimberley; Jordana, Esther; Pinedo, Susana; Gil, João. (2020). A further review of European Magelonidae (Annelida), including descriptions of <em>Magelona equilamellae</em> and <em>Magelona filiformis</em>. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4767(1): 89-114., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4767.1.4
note: key to European species [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
identification resource Mortimer, Kate; Blake, James A.; Harrendence, Kelsey. (2021). A review of the Magelonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of Northeast America, including a description of a new species and re-descriptions of Magelona riojai and Magelona sacculata. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 134(1): 209-242., available online at https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324x-134.1.209
note: Includes a dichotomous identification key to the known magelonid species of the northeastern American coast and a worldwide pictorial identification key to the ‘M. mirabilis’ group of magelonids [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
identification resource Taylor, Abbie; Mortimer, Kate; Jimi, Naoto. (2022). Unearthing the diversity of Japanese Magelona (Annelida: Magelonidae); three species new to science, and a redescription of Magelona japonica. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5196(4): 451-491., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5196.4.1
note: key for Japan [details] Available for editors
![PDF available PDF available](https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia/images/pdf_lock.png)
identification resource Mortimer, Kate; Clarke, Dylan T. (2024). Untangling the Magelonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of southern Africa, including the description of a new species. <em>African Zoology.</em> efirst: 1-28., available online at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15627020.2024.2311085
page(s): 24, figure 15, table 1; note: key to southern African species of Magelona with photos and table of characters. [details] Available for editors
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Etymology Not known. However, Magelona (feminine) is a 1535 German spelling of the name of a princess (beautiful Magelone, daughter of the King of Naples) who appears in the prose and verse tale "Liebesgeschichte der schönen Magelone und des Grafen Peter von Provence" (Love-Story of the Beautiful Magelone and Count Peter of Provence). it relates a German version of an anonymous tale originally in the Occitan language (of S. France, Italy, Spain) dating back to at least the 13th century. Thus it is likely that Magelona was a name in some use as a German girl's name in the 1850s when Müller adopted it as a genus, or was otherwise known to Müller through encountering the folk-tale. The tale (in German) is available at Gutenberg org [details]Grammatical gender Feminine. All the adjectival Magelona species-group names have feminine endings. Magelona is an obscure woman's name known in Germany from the late mediaeval period (see etymology). [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Magelona)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meredithia) (from synonym Meredithia Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octomagelona) (from synonym Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001)
To Genbank (from synonym Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (20 traits)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meredithia) (from synonym Meredithia Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss, 2000)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octomagelona) (from synonym Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001)
To Genbank (from synonym Octomagelona Aguirrezabalaga, Ceberio & Fiege, 2001)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (20 traits)
To ITIS