Deep-Sea taxon details
Malacoceros Quatrefages, 1843
129614 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129614)
accepted
Genus
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Quatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346
page(s): 8-10 [details]
page(s): 8-10 [details]
Note Spio vulgaris Johnston, 1827, subsequent...
From editor or global species database
Type species Spio vulgaris Johnston, 1827, subsequent designation by Pettibone (1963: 98). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The name Malacoceros is composed by the words malaco, from the Ancient Greek malakós (= 'soft'), and ceros,...
Etymology Not stated. The name Malacoceros is composed by the words malaco, from the Ancient Greek malakós (= 'soft'), and ceros, from the Greek kéras (= 'horn'), and seems to refer to the presence of two soft lateral projections or 'horns' on the anterior margin of the prostomium. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Malacoceros Quatrefages, 1843. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129614 on 2024-04-24
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Malacoceros Quatrefages, 1843. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129614 on 2024-04-24
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Quatrefages, Armand de. (1843). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles d'annélides errantes recueillies sur les côtes de la Manche. <em>Magasin de Zoologie, d'Anatomie Comparée et de Palaeontologie, Paris.</em> Série 2, 5: 1-16, plates I-III., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41155346
page(s): 8-10 [details]
basis of record 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). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 477 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
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]
identification resource Delgado-Blas, V. Hugo; Díaz-Díaz, Óscar (2013) Malacoceros longiseta, a new species of Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Venezuela. Marine Biodiversity 43 (3): 81-187
page(s): table 1; note: synoptic table of species [details]
page(s): 8-10 [details]
basis of record 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). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 477 [details]
additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors
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]
identification resource Delgado-Blas, V. Hugo; Díaz-Díaz, Óscar (2013) Malacoceros longiseta, a new species of Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Venezuela. Marine Biodiversity 43 (3): 81-187
page(s): table 1; note: synoptic table of species [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Etymology Not stated. The name Malacoceros is composed by the words malaco, from the Ancient Greek malakós (= 'soft'), and ceros, from the Greek kéras (= 'horn'), and seems to refer to the presence of two soft lateral projections or 'horns' on the anterior margin of the prostomium. [details]Grammatical gender Probably masculine. Compound words deriving from Greek κερασ (keras) 'horn' have been latinised with variable genders. Here the latinisation -ceros is of uncertain gender. Quatrefages appears to have regarded his genus word as masculine, and others have followed him, with some modern exceptions. [details]
Type species Spio vulgaris Johnston, 1827, subsequent designation by Pettibone (1963: 98). [details]
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Authority Malacoceros Quatrefages, 1843, emend. Pettibone, 1963 [details]
