WoRMS name details
Amphitrite plumosa Müller, 1776
155073 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155073)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Müller, O. F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. <em>Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen.</em> 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 216; note: as A? plumosa, as the fifth entry for a species of Amphitrite [details]
page(s): 216; note: as A? plumosa, as the fifth entry for a species of Amphitrite [details]
Type locality contained in Greenlandic part of the Arctic Ocean
, Note Neotype: Igannaq (76º05'07.12" N,...
type locality contained in Greenlandic part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
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Type locality Neotype: Igannaq (76º05'07.12" N, 68º41'27.57" W), NW Greenland [details]
Taxonomy In the past (eg Hartman catalogue) Amphitrite plumosa was re-assigned to Flabelligera affinis. Salazar-Vallejo (2014)...
Taxonomy In the past (eg Hartman catalogue) Amphitrite plumosa was re-assigned to Flabelligera affinis. Salazar-Vallejo (2014) suggests that Fabricius's description may have been a confusion of two species with one of them Flabelligera-like. Salazar-Vallejo attributes the current concept of Amphitrite plumosa as a Pherusa to Sars (1829) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Amphitrite plumosa Müller, 1776. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=155073 on 2024-04-18
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original description
Müller, O. F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum: characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. <em>Typis Hallagerii, Havni, Copenhagen.</em> 282 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550
page(s): 216; note: as A? plumosa, as the fifth entry for a species of Amphitrite [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]
source of synonymy 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]
source of synonymy Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors
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redescription Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285
page(s): 288; note: This is the original description, but Muller pre-empted Fabricius with a short diagnosis in the Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus [details]
subsequent type designation Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Revision of Pherusa Oken, 1807 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3886(1): 1-61., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2014/3886%281%29.html
page(s): 9; note: neotype erected for Amphitrite plumosa [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 216; note: as A? plumosa, as the fifth entry for a species of Amphitrite [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]
source of synonymy 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]
source of synonymy Fauchald, K. (2007). World Register of Polychaeta. , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]
source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors
[request] redescription Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. <em>Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe.</em> xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285
page(s): 288; note: This is the original description, but Muller pre-empted Fabricius with a short diagnosis in the Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus [details]
subsequent type designation Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Revision of Pherusa Oken, 1807 (Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3886(1): 1-61., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2014/3886%281%29.html
page(s): 9; note: neotype erected for Amphitrite plumosa [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Authority Past workers (eg Hartman catalogue p.498) have attributed the name to Fabricius (1780). Muller pre-empted Fabricius (1780), who fully describes Amphitrite plumosa with 1.5 pages of text, with a short diagnosis of Fabricius' name (if it was Fabricius name) in the Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus. It is clear Fabricius collected the specimen(s). Salazar-Vallejo (2014) in his review mentions repeatedly that Muller's description was short. In Salazar-Vallejo's introduction (p4), but not under the species remarks (p10), he comments on the long description by Fabricius (1980), and states that Muller originally "attributed the authorship for the species to Fabricius ..." This is doubtful, as from the layout used Muller appears more likely to be only attributing the collection of the specimen to Fabricius. Fabricius himself attributes the first usage of the name to Müller in the Prodromus. [details]Neotype Salazar-Vallejo (2014: 9) named a neotype: "Neotype (USNM 23257), 1.9 km NW of Conical Rock, Igannaq (76º05'07.12" N, 68º41'27.57" W), NW Greenland, 46-110 m, 22 Jul. 1940, R.A. Bartlett, coll." Salazar-Vallejo states that "Pherusa plumosa is the type species of Pherusa, but this is not correct. Amphitrite plumosa, is and will alway be, the name of the type species of Pherusa. The neotype is necessarily of Amphitrite plumosa, the original name, not of Pherusa plumosa, which is a later combination. [details]
Taxonomy In the past (eg Hartman catalogue) Amphitrite plumosa was re-assigned to Flabelligera affinis. Salazar-Vallejo (2014) suggests that Fabricius's description may have been a confusion of two species with one of them Flabelligera-like. Salazar-Vallejo attributes the current concept of Amphitrite plumosa as a Pherusa to Sars (1829) [details]
Type locality Neotype: Igannaq (76º05'07.12" N, 68º41'27.57" W), NW Greenland [details]
