WoRMS taxon details
Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897
326053 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326053)
accepted
Genus
Thoracophelia furcifera Ehlers, 1897 (type by monotypy)
Euzonus Grube, 1866 · unaccepted (replaced junior homonym)
Euzonus (Euzonus) · unaccepted (parent is replaced homonym)
Euzonus (Thoracophelia) Ehlers, 1897 · unaccepted (superseded subsequent rank change)
Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Pectinophelia Hartman, 1938 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Thoracophelia arctica (Grube, 1866)
- Species Thoracophelia bibrancha (Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
- Species Thoracophelia dillonensis (Hartman, 1938)
- Species Thoracophelia ezoensis Okuda, 1936
- Species Thoracophelia flabellifera Ziegelmeier, 1955
- Species Thoracophelia foliformis Lee, Lee & Min, 2024
- Species Thoracophelia furcifera Ehlers, 1897
- Species Thoracophelia heterocirra (Rozbaczylo & Zamorano, 1970)
- Species Thoracophelia japonica (Misaka & Sato, 2003)
- Species Thoracophelia longiseta (Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
- Species Thoracophelia mammillata (Santos, Nonato & Petersen, 2004)
- Species Thoracophelia minuta Jimi, Fujimoto, Takehara & Imura, 2021
- Species Thoracophelia mucronata (Treadwell, 1914)
- Species Thoracophelia otagoensis (Probert, 1976)
- Species Thoracophelia papillata (Santos, Nonato & Petersen, 2004)
- Species Thoracophelia profunda (Hartman, 1967)
- Species Thoracophelia williamsi (Hartman, 1938)
- Species Thoracophelia yasudai Okuda, 1934
- Species Thoracophelia zeidleri (Hartmann-Schröder & Parker, 1995)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93.</em> 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 101 [details]
page(s): 101 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326053 on 2025-06-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93.</em> 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 101 [details]
original description (of Pectinophelia Hartman, 1938) Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Euzonus Grube, 1866) Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1866). Einigen neuen Anneliden, zunächst einer nordischen, in die Nähe der Ophelien und Scalibregmen zu stellenden Annelide, <i>Euzonus arcticus</i>. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur.</em> 43: 64-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46561424
page(s): 64-65 [details]
original description (of Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984) Hutchings, Patricia A.; Murray, Anna. (1984). Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 3: 1-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.3.1984.101
page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 101 [details]
original description (of Pectinophelia Hartman, 1938) Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Euzonus Grube, 1866) Grube, Adolph Eduard. (1866). Einigen neuen Anneliden, zunächst einer nordischen, in die Nähe der Ophelien und Scalibregmen zu stellenden Annelide, <i>Euzonus arcticus</i>. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur.</em> 43: 64-65., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46561424
page(s): 64-65 [details]
original description (of Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984) Hutchings, Patricia A.; Murray, Anna. (1984). Taxonomy of polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> Supplement 3: 1-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.3.1984.101
page(s): 75 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
Blake, James A. (2011). Revalidation of the genus Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897, replacing Euzonus Grube, 1866 (Polychaeta: Opheliidae), junior homonym of Euzonus Menge, 1854 (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), together with a literature summary and updated listing of Thoracophelia species. Zootaxa, 2807: 65-68 [details]
Other
additional source
Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Law, Chris J.; Dorgan, Kelly M.; Rouse, Greg W. (2013). Validation of three sympatric <i>Thoracophelia</i> species (Annelida: Opheliidae) from Dillon Beach, California using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3608(1): 67-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.4 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Law, Chris J.; Dorgan, Kelly M.; Rouse, Greg W. (2013). Validation of three sympatric <i>Thoracophelia</i> species (Annelida: Opheliidae) from Dillon Beach, California using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3608(1): 67-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.4 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Euzonus) (from synonym Euzonus Grube, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lobochesis) (from synonym Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thoracophelia)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lobochesis) (from synonym Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Thoracophelia)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Lobochesis Hutchings & Murray, 1984)
To ITIS
