Deep-Sea taxon details
Sphaerephesia Fauchald, 1972
325025 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325025)
accepted
Genus
- Species Sphaerephesia amphorata Capa, Osborn & Bakken, 2016
- Species Sphaerephesia chilensis Fauchald, 1974
- Species Sphaerephesia kitazatoi (Shimabukuro, Rizzo, Alfaro-Lucas, Fujiwara & Sumida, 2017)
- Species Sphaerephesia laureci (Desbruyères, 1980)
- Species Sphaerephesia lesliae Alalykina, 2015
- Species Sphaerephesia regularis Böggemann, 2009
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207
page(s): 97 [details]
page(s): 97 [details]
Note Sphaerephesia longisetis has page precedence...
From editor or global species database
Type species Sphaerephesia longisetis has page precedence but Fauchald named the second species in his monograph, Sphaerephesia similisetis as the type species of the genus [details]
Etymology Not stated. Ephesia is a feminine genus name from Greek to which Fauchald has added Greek 'sphaero', meaning ball.
Etymology Not stated. Ephesia is a feminine genus name from Greek to which Fauchald has added Greek 'sphaero', meaning ball. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Sphaerephesia Fauchald, 1972. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325025 on 2024-04-23
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Sphaerephesia Fauchald, 1972. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325025 on 2024-04-23
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Fauchald, K. (1972). Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 7: 1-575., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/6207
page(s): 97 [details]
identification resource Alalykina, Inna L. (2015). Polychaete composition from the abyssal plain adjacent to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench with the description of a new species of Sphaerephesia (Polychaeta: Sphaerodoridae). <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 111: 166-174., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064514002598
page(s): 169; note: key to species [details] Available for editors
page(s): 97 [details]
identification resource Alalykina, Inna L. (2015). Polychaete composition from the abyssal plain adjacent to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench with the description of a new species of Sphaerephesia (Polychaeta: Sphaerodoridae). <em>Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.</em> 111: 166-174., available online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064514002598
page(s): 169; note: key to species [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Ephesia is a feminine genus name from Greek to which Fauchald has added Greek 'sphaero', meaning ball. [details]Grammatical gender feminine, stemming from Ephesia, which is feminine. [details]
Type species Sphaerephesia longisetis has page precedence but Fauchald named the second species in his monograph, Sphaerephesia similisetis as the type species of the genus [details]
