WoRMS name details
Telethusae Savigny, 1822
1437650 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1437650)
unaccepted (Also later as Telethusidae. Unavailable as not formulated from an existing genus name)
Family
Arenicola Lamarck, 1801 (type by monotypy)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 70, 95; note: unexplained & not formulated from a genus name [details]
page(s): 70, 95; note: unexplained & not formulated from a genus name [details]
Etymology Savigny (1822) has no etymology, but Ashworth (1912: 26 footnote) attributes the name to Ovid's Metamorphoses where from...
Status Savigny (1822) gives no explanation of his 'Telethusae' family name for Arenicola species so we have no information on what...
Etymology Savigny (1822) has no etymology, but Ashworth (1912: 26 footnote) attributes the name to Ovid's Metamorphoses where from Greek mythology Telethusa is the wife of Lygdus and mother of Iphis [details]
Status Savigny (1822) gives no explanation of his 'Telethusae' family name for Arenicola species so we have no information on what...
Status Savigny (1822) gives no explanation of his 'Telethusae' family name for Arenicola species so we have no information on what he intended by creating it. It cannot be an available name as there is no genus 'Telethusa' then or now. Other workers did use it subsequently, including Kinberg (1866: 355), who misspelled it 'as Teletusea', and notably Johnston (1865:226) who used the name Telethusae instead of the name Arenicolidae he had used earlier and is the authority for (1835). Ashworth (1912: 26) comments on this "remarkable" change of usage by Johnston. As Telethusidae the name is in use as late as 1890 when Marenzeller includes it in his list of family names in annelids together with their German common names. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Telethusae Savigny, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1437650 on 2024-04-24
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original description
Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. <em>Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris.</em> 1(3):1–128., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41329897
page(s): 70, 95; note: unexplained & not formulated from a genus name [details]
additional source Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795
page(s): 355; note: Kinberg misspells 'Telethusae' as 'Teletusea' [details]
status source Ashworth, James Hartley 1912. Catalogue of the Chaetopoda in the British Museum. A. Polychaeta: Part 1. Arenicolidae. 1-175. British Museum of Natural History. London.
page(s): 26-27; note: Includes comments on the history of the name 'Telethusae', and the addition and removal of genera from it by various authors. [details]
page(s): 70, 95; note: unexplained & not formulated from a genus name [details]
additional source Kinberg, J.G.H. (1866 [or 1867]). Annulata nova. [Continuatio.]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 23(9): 337-357., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32287795
page(s): 355; note: Kinberg misspells 'Telethusae' as 'Teletusea' [details]
status source Ashworth, James Hartley 1912. Catalogue of the Chaetopoda in the British Museum. A. Polychaeta: Part 1. Arenicolidae. 1-175. British Museum of Natural History. London.
page(s): 26-27; note: Includes comments on the history of the name 'Telethusae', and the addition and removal of genera from it by various authors. [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment On p. 96 discussing Arenicola (Telethusae) Savigny has a remarkable footnote of interest because it indicates input by Savigny into the 'Systeme des Annelides' after his unpublished MS was available to Lamarck & Cuvier.He writes (transl) "I read in the l'Histoire des animaux sans vertèbres [1818, by Lamarck]:
"Mr. Savigny places the Arenicole among the Serpulous Annelids; he assures that the animal has hooked bristles and that it lives in a tube" As the end of this paragraph presents an equivocal meaning, I believe I must reproduce here the passage from my memoirs that M. de Lamarck then had before his eyes: "The Arenicoles must form in the order of the Serpulea a third family, which will be sufficiently distinguished from the second by the presence of the gills, and from the first by the position of these gills towards the middle of the body.... [etc] [G. Read, April 2024] [details]
Etymology Savigny (1822) has no etymology, but Ashworth (1912: 26 footnote) attributes the name to Ovid's Metamorphoses where from Greek mythology Telethusa is the wife of Lygdus and mother of Iphis [details]
Status Savigny (1822) gives no explanation of his 'Telethusae' family name for Arenicola species so we have no information on what he intended by creating it. It cannot be an available name as there is no genus 'Telethusa' then or now. Other workers did use it subsequently, including Kinberg (1866: 355), who misspelled it 'as Teletusea', and notably Johnston (1865:226) who used the name Telethusae instead of the name Arenicolidae he had used earlier and is the authority for (1835). Ashworth (1912: 26) comments on this "remarkable" change of usage by Johnston. As Telethusidae the name is in use as late as 1890 when Marenzeller includes it in his list of family names in annelids together with their German common names. [details]
