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WoRMS taxon detailsSphaerephesia Fauchald, 1972
325025 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325025)
accepted
Genus
Sphaerephesia similisetis Fauchald, 1972 (type by original designation)
marine,
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]
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.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Sphaerephesia Fauchald, 1972. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325025 on 2025-05-10
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
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 resourceidentification 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  [request] 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] |
