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Name

Day, John H. (1964). A review of the family Ampharetidae (Polychaeta. Annals of the South African Museum. 48(4): 97-120.

SourceID

49618

Authors

Day, John H.

Year

1964

Title

A review of the family Ampharetidae (Polychaeta

Journal

Annals of the South African Museum

Suffix

48(4): 97-120

Type

Publication

Link

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40722718

Note

World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)

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Abstract

The characters of existing genera are discussed and it is shown that confusion has arisen because the anterior segments have been telescoped and there are two different systems of numbering them. It is proposed that the separation of genera be based primarily on the number of gills and the number of uncigerous thoracic segments. The main diagnostic characters of 49 type-species have been tabulated and it is suggested that 16 genera which are mostly monotypic be sunk. Keys and definitions of the remaining 33 genera are provided.

Geographical term

South Africa

Bibliographical term

Systematics, Taxonomy

Taxonomic term

Polychaeta

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Taxa (9)
Notes (6)

Ampharetidae Malmgren, 1866 (additional source)
Asabellides Annenkova, 1929 accepted as Ampharete Malmgren, 1866 (status source)
Eclysippe Eliason, 1955 (source of synonymy)
Melinnexis Annenkova, 1931 accepted as Melinnopsis McIntosh, 1885 (source of synonymy)
Melinnides Wesenberg-Lund, 1950 accepted as Melinnopsis McIntosh, 1885 (source of synonymy)
Melinnopsis rostrata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1950) (new combination reference)
Melinnopsis somovi (Uschakov, 1957) (status source)
Sabellides Milne Edwards in Lamarck, 1838 accepted as Ampharete Malmgren, 1866 (additional source)
Sabellides octocirrata (M. Sars, 1835) accepted as Ampharete octocirrata (Sars, 1835) (additional source)

Classification

for Melinnidae Chamberlin, 1919

Formerly a subfamily in Ampharetidae. Chamberlin (1919: 443) in a key, without indicating it was a new subfamily, ... [details]

Editor's comment

for Melinnexis rostrata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1950)

There is no source for a usage of this recombination. A source needs to be added to verify it. The recombination is ... [details]

New combination

for Phyllocomus hiltoni (Chamberlin, 1919)

Day (1964: 115) places Schistocomus as junior synonym of Phyllocomus. There is no mention of Schistocomus hiltoni, ... [details]

Synonymy

for Eclysippe Eliason, 1955

Day (1964:118) tentatively placed Eclysippe in Samythella Verrill, and later (1973:113) confirmed this synonymy. ... [details]

Synonymy

for Moyanus Chamberlin, 1919

Moyanus has few usages, and Day (1964) regarded it as 'doubtful'. The Hartman (1959) catalogue has Moyanus as ... [details]

Synonymy

for Schistocomus Chamberlin, 1919

Day (1957) moves Schistocomus hiltoni to Phyllocomus. As S. hiltoni is the type of Schistocomus this automatically ... [details]