WoRMS taxon details
Marphysa Quatrefages, 1866
129281 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129281)
accepted
Genus
Nereis sanguinea Montagu, 1813 accepted as Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813) (type by subsequent designation)
Amphelothrix [misspelling of Aphelothrix] · unaccepted (Indexing lapsus calami by...)
Indexing lapsus calami by Chamberlin, of no taxonomic significance
Amphiro Kinberg, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Amphiron [misspelling of Amphiro Kinberg] · unaccepted (lapsus calami by Chamberlin, of...)
lapsus calami by Chamberlin, of no taxonomic significance
Aphelothrix Chamberlin, 1919 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Eunice (Marphysa) Quatrefages, 1866 · unaccepted (superseded subsequent rank change)
Macduffia McIntosh, 1885 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Nausicaa Kinberg, 1865 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Marphysa acicularum Webster, 1884
- Species Marphysa aegypti Elgetany, El-Ghobashy, Ghoneim & Struck, 2018
- Species Marphysa aenea (Blanchard in Gay, 1849)
- Species Marphysa americana Monro, 1933
- Species Marphysa angelensis Fauchald, 1970
- Species Marphysa aransensis Treadwell, 1939
- Species Marphysa atlantica (Kinberg, 1865)
- Species Marphysa baileybrockae Molina-Acevedo & Idris, 2020
- Species Marphysa banana Lavesque, Daffe, Glasby, Hourdez & Hutchings, 2022
- Species Marphysa baudini Lavesque, Zanol, Daffe, Flaxman & Hutchings, 2023
- Species Marphysa bernardi Rullier, 1972
- Species Marphysa bifurcata Kott, 1951
- Species Marphysa birgeri Molina-Acevedo & Idris, 2020
- Species Marphysa bonhardi (McIntosh, 1885)
- Species Marphysa borradailei Pillai, 1958
- Species Marphysa brasiliensis (Hansen, 1882)
- Species Marphysa brevibranchiata Treadwell, 1921
- Species Marphysa brevitentaculata Treadwell, 1921
- Species Marphysa californica Moore, 1909
- Species Marphysa capensis (Schmarda, 1861)
- Species Marphysa chevalensis Willey, 1905
- Species Marphysa chirigota Martin, Gil & Zanol in Martin et al. 2020
- Species Marphysa corallina (Kinberg, 1865)
- Species Marphysa davidattenboroughi Lavesque, Zanol, Daffe, Flaxman & Hutchings, 2023
- Species Marphysa depressa (Schmarda, 1861)
- Species Marphysa digitibranchia Hoagland, 1920
- Species Marphysa durbanensis Day, 1934
- Species Marphysa emiliae Molina-Acevedo & Carrera-Parra, 2017
- Species Marphysa fauchaldi Glasby & Hutchings, 2010
- Species Marphysa fijiensis Molina-Acevedo & Idris, 2021
- Species Marphysa formosa Steiner & Amaral, 2000
- Species Marphysa fragilis Treadwell, 1911
- Species Marphysa furcellata Crossland, 1903
- Species Marphysa gaditana Martin, Gil & Zanol in Martin et al. 2020
- Species Marphysa galluccii Orensanz, 1990
- Species Marphysa gayi Quatrefages, 1866
- Species Marphysa gravelyi Southern, 1921
- Species Marphysa haemasona Quatrefages, 1866
- Species Marphysa hamata (Schmarda, 1861)
- Species Marphysa hongkongensa Wang, Zhang & Qiu, 2018
- Species Marphysa iloiloensis Glasby, Mandario, Burghardt, Kupriyanova, Gunton & Hutchings, 2019
- Species Marphysa januarii (Grube, 1881)
- Species Marphysa johnsoni (Langerhans, 1880)
- Species Marphysa kristiani Zanol, da Silva & Hutchings, 2016
- Species Marphysa leidii Quatrefages, 1866
- Species Marphysa macintoshi Crossland, 1903
- Species Marphysa madrasi Hutchings, Lavesque, Priscilla, Daffe, Malathi & Glasby, 2020
- Species Marphysa mangeri Augener, 1918
- Species Marphysa mauritanica Gillet, 1990
- Species Marphysa maxidenticulata Liu, Hutchings & Kupriyanova, 2018
- Species Marphysa minima (Hansen, 1882)
- Species Marphysa moribidii Idris, Hutchings & Arshad, 2014
- Species Marphysa mortenseni Monro, 1928
- Species Marphysa mossambica (Peters, 1854)
- Species Marphysa mullawa Hutchings & Karageorgopoulos, 2003
- Species Marphysa multipectinata Liu, Hutchings & Sun, 2017
- Species Marphysa mzingazia Kara, Molina-Acevedo, Macdonald, Zanol & Simon, 2023
- Species Marphysa nobilis Treadwell, 1917
- Species Marphysa orensanzi Carrera-Parra & Salazar-Vallejo, 1998
- Species Marphysa orientalis (Willey, 1905)
- Species Marphysa orientalis Treadwell, 1936 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, not valid as a junior secondary homonym to M. orientalis (Willey, 1905))
- Species Marphysa papuaensis Lavesque, Daffe, Glasby, Hourdez & Hutchings, 2022
- Species Marphysa parishii Baird, 1869
- Species Marphysa peruviana Quatrefages, 1866
- Species Marphysa pseudosessiloa Zanol, da Silva & Hutchings, 2017
- Species Marphysa quadrioculata (Grube, 1856)
- Species Marphysa regalis Verrill, 1900
- Species Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813)
- Species Marphysa schmardai Gravier, 1907
- Species Marphysa sebastiana Steiner & Amaral, 2000
- Species Marphysa sessilobranchiata Hartmann-Schröder, 1984
- Species Marphysa sherlockae Kara, Molina-Acevedo, Zanol, Simon & Idris, 2020
- Species Marphysa simplex (Langerhans, 1884)
- Species Marphysa soembaensis Augener, 1933
- Species Marphysa striata (Kinberg, 1865)
- Species Marphysa stylobranchiata Moore, 1909
- Species Marphysa tamurai Okuda, 1934
- Species Marphysa teres (Treadwell, 1922)
- Species Marphysa teretiuscula (Schmarda, 1861)
- Species Marphysa tribranchiata Liu, Hutchings & Sun, 2017
- Species Marphysa tripectinata Liu, Hutchings & Sun, 2017
- Species Marphysa unibranchiata Knox & Cameron, 1970
- Species Marphysa victori Lavesque, Daffe, Bonifácio & Hutchings, 2017
- Species Marphysa viridis Treadwell, 1917
- Species Marphysa zanolae Lavesque, Daffe, Glasby, Hourdez & Hutchings, 2022
- Species Marphysa adenensis Gravier, 1900 accepted as Paucibranchia adenensis (Gravier, 1900) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa amadae Fauchald, 1977 accepted as Treadwellphysa amadae (Fauchald, 1977) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa angeli Carrera-Parra & Salazar-Vallejo, 1998 accepted as Nicidion angeli (Carrera-Parra & Salazar-Vallejo, 1998) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa antipathum Pourtalès, 1867 accepted as Eunice antipathum (Pourtalès, 1867) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa belli [auctt.] accepted as Marphysa bellii (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) accepted as Paucibranchia bellii (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) (incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Marphysa bellii (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) accepted as Paucibranchia bellii (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833) (superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Marphysa bulla Liu, Hutchings & Kupriyanova, 2018 accepted as Marphysa victori Lavesque, Daffe, Bonifácio & Hutchings, 2017 (subjective synonym)
- Species Marphysa capensis Fauvel, 1950 accepted as Marphysa corallina (Kinberg, 1865) (subjective synonym, and junior homonym)
- Species Marphysa cinari Kurt-Sahin, 2014 accepted as Paucibranchia cinari (Kurt-Sahin, 2014) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa conferta Moore, 1911 accepted as Paucibranchia conferta (Moore, 1911) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa corallina Ehlers, 1901 (unaccepted > nomen nudum, subjective synonym)
- Species Marphysa dartevellei Monro, 1936 accepted as Treadwellphysa dartevellei (Monro, 1936) (new combination)
- Species Marphysa disjuncta Hartman, 1961 accepted as Paucibranchia disjuncta (Hartman, 1961) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008 accepted as Marphysa haemasona Quatrefages, 1866 (subjective synonym)
- Species Marphysa escobarae Salazar-Vallejo & Carrera-Parra, 1997 accepted as Marphysa fragilis Treadwell, 1911 (junior synonym)
- Species Marphysa fallax Marion & Bobretzky, 1875 accepted as Paucibranchia fallax (Marion & Bobretzky, 1875) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa floridana Pourtalès, 1867 accepted as Eunice floridana (Pourtalès, 1867) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa gemmata Mohammad, 1973 accepted as Paucibranchia gemmata (Mohammad, 1973) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa goodsiri McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Eunice goodsiri (McIntosh, 1885) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866] accepted as Marphysa haemasona Quatrefages, 1866 (misspelling)
- Species Marphysa hemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866] accepted as Marphysa haemasona Quatrefages, 1866 (misspelling)
- Species Marphysa hentscheli Augener, 1931 accepted as Nicidion hentscheli (Augener, 1931) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa iwamushi Izuka, 1907 accepted as Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813) (subjective synonym)
- Species Marphysa kinbergi McIntosh, 1910 accepted as Paucibranchia kinbergi (McIntosh, 1910) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa languida Treadwell, 1921 accepted as Treadwellphysa languida (Treadwell, 1921) (new combination)
- Species Marphysa longula (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Nicidion longula (Ehlers, 1887)
- Species Marphysa mcintoshi [misspelling of macintoshi] accepted as Marphysa macintoshi Crossland, 1903 (lapsus in text flow, of no taxonomic significance)
- Species Marphysa mixta Fauchald, 1970 accepted as Treadwellphysa mixta (Fauchald, 1970) (new combination)
- Species Marphysa parvipes (Benham, 1927) accepted as Nicidion parvipes (Benham, 1927) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Marphysa posteriobranchia [auctt. misspelling as 'io' for posterobranchia] accepted as Nicidion posterobranchia (Day, 1962) (unaccepted > misspelling, incorrect subsequent spelling. Confirmed incorrect by Day's 1967 use of 'posterobranchia' as first published by him)
- Species Marphysa posterobranchia Day, 1962 accepted as Nicidion posterobranchia (Day, 1962) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa proppi (Averincev, 1972) accepted as Nicidion proppi (Averincev, 1972) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Marphysa purcellana Willey, 1904 accepted as Paucibranchia purcellana (Willey, 1904) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa saxicola Langerhans, 1881 accepted as Nicidion saxicola (Langerhans, 1881) (unaccepted > superseded combination, superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa simplex Crossland, 1903 accepted as Marphysa teretiuscula (Schmarda, 1861) (subjective synonym, junior secondary homonym)
- Species Marphysa simplex Treadwell, 1922 accepted as Marphysa fijiensis Molina-Acevedo & Idris, 2021 (junior primary and secondary homonym, replaced by new name M. fijiensis)
- Species Marphysa sinensis Monro, 1934 accepted as Paucibranchia sinensis (Monro, 1934) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa stragulum (Grube, 1878) accepted as Paucibranchia stragulum (Grube, 1878) (superseded subsequent combination)
- Species Marphysa tibiana Pourtalès, 1867 accepted as Eunice tibiana (Pourtalès, 1867) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa totospinata Lu & Fauchald, 1998 accepted as Paucibranchia totospinata (Lu & Fauchald, 1998) (superseded original combination)
- Species Marphysa veracruzensis de Léon-González & Castañeda, 2006 accepted as Treadwellphysa veracruzensis (de León-González & Castañeda, 2006) (new combination)
- Species Marphysa grunwaldi (Risso, 1826) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminable fide Lavesque et al. 2017)
- Species Marphysa pacifica (Rullier, 1972) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, genus uncertain)
- Species Marphysa triantennata (Risso, 1826) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminable fide Lavesque et al. 2017)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 331; note: Quatrefages named Marphysa, and included several former Eunice species. [details]
page(s): 331; note: Quatrefages named Marphysa, and included several former Eunice species. [details]
Note Type species Nereis sanguinea Montagu 1813 in...
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Type species Type species Nereis sanguinea Montagu 1813 in Hartman catalogue, p.320. Designation must have been a subsequent designation as Quatrefages included several taxa without indicating a type (although presenting the description of M. sanguinea first). [details]
Etymology Not stated by Quatrefages, and not known. Marphysa does not appear to be a known word in classical Latin or Greek. However,...
Etymology Not stated by Quatrefages, and not known. Marphysa does not appear to be a known word in classical Latin or Greek. However, Greek 'physa', a feminine noun meaning bladder or bubble, occurs outside of Annelida as part of several compound genera names. At best we can treat the gender of Marphysa as reliably feminine as Quatrefages did not change the suffixes of the 3 or 4 adjectival Eunice names he recombined in Marphysa, and later authors have also treated it as feminine. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129281 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 331; note: Quatrefages named Marphysa, and included several former Eunice species. [details]
original description (of Amphiro Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 565 [details]
original description (of Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 564; note: for two new species Nauphanta novae Hollandiae from Sydney and N. corallina from Honolulu [details]
original description (of Macduffia McIntosh, 1885) McIntosh, W.C. [as M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426
page(s): 303 [details]
original description (of Nausicaa Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 565 [details]
original description (of Aphelothrix Chamberlin, 1919) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 231; note: new genus of Leodocidae (now Eunicidae) introduced in a key, with (in footnote) Marphysa mossambica Peters as type species [details]
taxonomy source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(1): 1-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4679950 [details]
taxonomy source Zanol, J.; Da Silva, T. D. S. C.; Hutchings, P. (2016). Marphysa (Eunicidae, polychaete, Annelida) species of the Sanguinea group from Australia, with comments on pseudo-cryptic species. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 135(4): 328-344., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ivb.12146/full [details]
taxonomy source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2017). Revision of <em>Marphysa</em> de Quatrefages, 1865 and some species of <em>Nicidion</em> Kinberg, 1865 with the erection of a new genus (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) from the Grand Caribbean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4241(1): 1-62., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4241.1.1
note: review of genus [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C. (2018). Morphological revision of the Subgroup 1 Fauchald, 1970 of Marphysa de Quatrefages, 1865 (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4480(1): 1-125., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4480.1.1 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2 [details] Available for editors [request]
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). [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 Quatrefages, Armand de. (1865). Note sur la Classification des Annélides, et résponse aux observations de M. Claparède. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> 3: 253-296., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29127338 [details]
identification resource Katsiaras, Nikolaos; Simboura, Nomiki; Koutsoubas, Drosos. (2014). The rare subgroup C1 of <em>Marphysa</em> (Polychaeta, Eunicidae): re-description of species and first records in the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa. 3873(3): 201-217., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3873.3.1
page(s): 215 [key to Mediterranean species] [details]
identification resource Glasby, Christopher J.; Mandario, Mary Anne E.; Burghardt, Ingo; Kupriyanova, Elena; Gunton, Laetitia M.; Hutchings, Pat A. (2019). A new species of the sanguinea-group Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida: Eunicidae: Marphysa ) from the Philippines. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4674(2): 264-282., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4674.2.7
page(s): 274; note: Key to Marphysa species in the sanguinea-group from Southeast Asia [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource Kara, Jyothi; Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Macdonald, Angus; Zanol, Joana; Simon, Carol. (2023). A closer look at the taxonomic and genetic diversity of endemic South African <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865. <em>PeerJ.</em> 11: e16665: 1-27., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/16665/
page(s): 19 of 27; note: key to Marphysa species of South Africa [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Quatrefages, Armand de 1865. Note sur la classification des Annélides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris 60(13): 586-600., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3713886
page(s): 593; note: Listed in a key, non-latinized as French informal 'Marphyse', therefore Marphysa is not an available name from this publication [details]
page(s): 331; note: Quatrefages named Marphysa, and included several former Eunice species. [details]
original description (of Amphiro Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 565 [details]
original description (of Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 564; note: for two new species Nauphanta novae Hollandiae from Sydney and N. corallina from Honolulu [details]
original description (of Macduffia McIntosh, 1885) McIntosh, W.C. [as M'Intosh]. (1885). Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 12 (part 34): i-xxxvi, 1-554, pl. 1-55, 1A-39A, & Annelida stations map., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50688426
page(s): 303 [details]
original description (of Nausicaa Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 565 [details]
original description (of Aphelothrix Chamberlin, 1919) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 231; note: new genus of Leodocidae (now Eunicidae) introduced in a key, with (in footnote) Marphysa mossambica Peters as type species [details]
taxonomy source Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(1): 1-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4679950 [details]
taxonomy source Zanol, J.; Da Silva, T. D. S. C.; Hutchings, P. (2016). Marphysa (Eunicidae, polychaete, Annelida) species of the Sanguinea group from Australia, with comments on pseudo-cryptic species. <em>Invertebrate Biology.</em> 135(4): 328-344., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ivb.12146/full [details]
taxonomy source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Carrera-Parra, Luis F. (2017). Revision of <em>Marphysa</em> de Quatrefages, 1865 and some species of <em>Nicidion</em> Kinberg, 1865 with the erection of a new genus (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) from the Grand Caribbean. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4241(1): 1-62., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4241.1.1
note: review of genus [details] Available for editors
[request] taxonomy source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C. (2018). Morphological revision of the Subgroup 1 Fauchald, 1970 of Marphysa de Quatrefages, 1865 (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4480(1): 1-125., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4480.1.1 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2 [details] Available for editors
[request] 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). [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 Quatrefages, Armand de. (1865). Note sur la Classification des Annélides, et résponse aux observations de M. Claparède. <em>Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris.</em> 3: 253-296., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29127338 [details]
identification resource Katsiaras, Nikolaos; Simboura, Nomiki; Koutsoubas, Drosos. (2014). The rare subgroup C1 of <em>Marphysa</em> (Polychaeta, Eunicidae): re-description of species and first records in the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa. 3873(3): 201-217., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3873.3.1
page(s): 215 [key to Mediterranean species] [details]
identification resource Glasby, Christopher J.; Mandario, Mary Anne E.; Burghardt, Ingo; Kupriyanova, Elena; Gunton, Laetitia M.; Hutchings, Pat A. (2019). A new species of the sanguinea-group Quatrefages, 1866 (Annelida: Eunicidae: Marphysa ) from the Philippines. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4674(2): 264-282., available online at https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4674.2.7
page(s): 274; note: Key to Marphysa species in the sanguinea-group from Southeast Asia [details] Available for editors
[request] identification resource Kara, Jyothi; Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Macdonald, Angus; Zanol, Joana; Simon, Carol. (2023). A closer look at the taxonomic and genetic diversity of endemic South African <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865. <em>PeerJ.</em> 11: e16665: 1-27., available online at https://peerj.com/articles/16665/
page(s): 19 of 27; note: key to Marphysa species of South Africa [details] Available for editors
[request] original description (unavailable nomenclaturally) Quatrefages, Armand de 1865. Note sur la classification des Annélides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris 60(13): 586-600., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3713886
page(s): 593; note: Listed in a key, non-latinized as French informal 'Marphyse', therefore Marphysa is not an available name from this publication [details]
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Etymology Not stated by Quatrefages, and not known. Marphysa does not appear to be a known word in classical Latin or Greek. However, Greek 'physa', a feminine noun meaning bladder or bubble, occurs outside of Annelida as part of several compound genera names. At best we can treat the gender of Marphysa as reliably feminine as Quatrefages did not change the suffixes of the 3 or 4 adjectival Eunice names he recombined in Marphysa, and later authors have also treated it as feminine. [details]Grammatical gender Feminine, an assumption mainly based on the early Marphysa names created and that 'physa' in Greek is a feminine noun. The etymology is uncertain. [details]
Publication date Quatrefages first book volume is dated 1866, although the title page has 1865. This is because of comments about the date by Wright in the 1866 Zoological Record. Marphysa genus and several Marphysa species first are published in this volume, and the date is 1866 (we have no way of knowing if Wright is correct with his 1866 availability date for the books). However, as informal French 'Marphyse' the name appears, without species names link, in a key in a classification extract Quatrefages published twice in 1865, first as "Note sur la classification des annelides" and then again as "Note sur la Classification des Annélides, et résponse aux observations de M. Claparède" in a different journal. Some taxonomists date Marphysa from the appearance of informal 'Marphyse" in these publications, but this seems unwarranted [details]
Type species Type species Nereis sanguinea Montagu 1813 in Hartman catalogue, p.320. Designation must have been a subsequent designation as Quatrefages included several taxa without indicating a type (although presenting the description of M. sanguinea first). [details]
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Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
