African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Pherecardia Horst, 1886

Ambon Island Pherecardia striata from Ambon Islan, ZMH PE29, in Salazar-Vallejo et al, 2025

AphiaID

204530 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204530)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Amphinominae Lamarck, 1818

Original name

Pherecardia Horst, 1886

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Species Pherecardia striata (Kinberg, 1857)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Horst, R. (1886). [Note 24] Contributions towards the knowledge of the Annelida Polychaeta. I .Amphinomidae. Notes from the Leyden Museum, Jentink. 8: 157-174., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9637890, http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/552221
page(s): 165 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Pherecardia Horst, 1886. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204530 on 2026-08-06

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Pherecardia Horst, 1886. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204530 on 2026-08-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-26 11:57:53Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1998-01-23 08:03:04Z

changed

Fondo, Esther

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2015-11-22 23:08:05Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2025-11-12 21:22:31Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

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original description Horst, R. (1886). [Note 24] Contributions towards the knowledge of the Annelida Polychaeta. I .Amphinomidae. Notes from the Leyden Museum, Jentink. 8: 157-174., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9637890, http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/552221
page(s): 165 [details]

taxonomy source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; Piotrowski, Christina N.; Harris, Leslie; Paulay, Gustav. (2025). Revision of Pherecardia Horst, 1886 (Annelida, Amphinomidae). Zoosystema. 47 (28): 691-720., available online at https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/zoosystema/47/28 [details] Available for editors

additional source Horst, Rutgerus. (1912). Polychaeta errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 1, Amphinomidae. Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Botanisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900. 24a: 1-43, 10 plates., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2187401
page(s): 32 [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]

status source Borda, Elizabeth; Yáñez-Rivera, Beatriz; Ochoa, Gabriela M.; Kudenov, Jerry D.; Sanchez-Ortiz, Carlos; Schulze, Anja; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Revamping Amphinomidae (Annelida: Amphinomida), with the inclusion of Notopygos. Zoologica Scripta. 44(3): 324-333., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12099
page(s): 330; note: provisional inclusion in Amphinominae until further study [details]