WoRMS taxon details
Alciopina parasitica Claparède & Panceri, 1867
129750 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129750)
accepted
Species
Alciopina albomaculata (Levinsen, 1885) · unaccepted (superseded subsequent combination...)
superseded subsequent combination of subjective synonym
Alciopina pancerii Buchholz, 1869 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Alciopina parassitica Claparède & Panceri, 1867 · alternative representation (Correct spelling but prevailing...)
Correct spelling but prevailing usage is as 'parasitica'
Corynocephalus albomaculatus Levinsen, 1885 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Alciopina parassitica Claparède & Panceri, 1867) Claparède, Éduardo; Panceri, Paulo. (1867). Nota sopra un alciopide parassito della Cydippe densa Forsk. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Milano. 3(4): 1-9, 1 plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48497251
page(s): 6-8, plate figs. 2-15; note: Just named as a binomen mentioned at the end in the flow of text on page 8 [details]
page(s): 6-8, plate figs. 2-15; note: Just named as a binomen mentioned at the end in the flow of text on page 8 [details]
Type locality contained in Gulf of Naples (Italy)
type locality contained in Gulf of Naples (Italy) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Alciopina parasitica Claparède & Panceri, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129750 on 2025-04-08
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Corynocephalus albomaculatus Levinsen, 1885) Levinsen, G.M.R. (1885). Spolia atlantica. Om nogle pelagiske Annulata. Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskabs skrifter. Naturvidenskabelig og mathematisk afdeling. (Series 6) 3(2): 321-344, plate 3., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34738282
page(s): 327-330, plate III figs. 1-6 [details]
original description (of Alciopina parassitica Claparède & Panceri, 1867) Claparède, Éduardo; Panceri, Paulo. (1867). Nota sopra un alciopide parassito della Cydippe densa Forsk. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Milano. 3(4): 1-9, 1 plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48497251
page(s): 6-8, plate figs. 2-15; note: Just named as a binomen mentioned at the end in the flow of text on page 8 [details]
original description (of Alciopina pancerii Buchholz, 1869) Buchholz, R. W. 1869. Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte von Alciope. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 19: 95-98. [details]
page(s): 327-330, plate III figs. 1-6 [details]
original description (of Alciopina parassitica Claparède & Panceri, 1867) Claparède, Éduardo; Panceri, Paulo. (1867). Nota sopra un alciopide parassito della Cydippe densa Forsk. Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Milano. 3(4): 1-9, 1 plate., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48497251
page(s): 6-8, plate figs. 2-15; note: Just named as a binomen mentioned at the end in the flow of text on page 8 [details]
original description (of Alciopina pancerii Buchholz, 1869) Buchholz, R. W. 1869. Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte von Alciope. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 19: 95-98. [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Claparède, É. & P. Panceri. (1869). II.— Note on an Alciopid, a parasite of Cydippe densa, Forskål. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (series 4) 4(19): 29-34., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27734837
note: A translation from the Italian original of 1867. Note the 'corrected' spelling of original 'parassitica' [details]
redescription Suarez-Morales, Eduardo; Jimenez-Cueto, Soledad; and Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. 2005. Catalogo de los Poliquetos Pelagicos (Polychaeta) del Golfo de Mexico y Mar Caribe Mexicano. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Chetumal: 1-99 [details]
redescription Granata, Leopoldo. (1911). Osservazioni su alcuni stadi di sviluppo di Corynocephalus albomaculatus Lev. (Alciopina parasitica Clpde. e Panc.). Monitore Zoologico Italiano. 22: 151-158, text fig., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10071867 [details]
note: A translation from the Italian original of 1867. Note the 'corrected' spelling of original 'parassitica' [details]
redescription Suarez-Morales, Eduardo; Jimenez-Cueto, Soledad; and Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. 2005. Catalogo de los Poliquetos Pelagicos (Polychaeta) del Golfo de Mexico y Mar Caribe Mexicano. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Chetumal: 1-99 [details]
redescription Granata, Leopoldo. (1911). Osservazioni su alcuni stadi di sviluppo di Corynocephalus albomaculatus Lev. (Alciopina parasitica Clpde. e Panc.). Monitore Zoologico Italiano. 22: 151-158, text fig., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10071867 [details]
Other
additional source
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [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]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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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]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors






- Type locality
- type locality contained in Gulf of Naples (Italy) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
- From editor or global species database
- Mediterranean Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
- Unreviewed
- North Atlantic Ocean
From editor or global species database
Spelling The spelling 'Alciopina parassitica', with double s, is the original spelling. Prevailing usage of 'parasitica' as in Granata and others apparently supersedes the original spelling. This may have arisen because the original article in Italian was republished in English in a more widely read journal (Annals & magazine ..) [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Corynocephalus albomaculatus Levinsen, 1885)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Corynocephalus albomaculatus Levinsen, 1885)
To PESI (from synonym Alciopina albomaculata (Levinsen, 1885))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (4 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Corynocephalus albomaculatus Levinsen, 1885)
To PESI (from synonym Alciopina albomaculata (Levinsen, 1885))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (4 records)
To ITIS