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Savigny, Jules-César. (1822). Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 1(3):1–128.
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Savigny, Jules-César
1822
Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces
Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des Observations et des Recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'Expédition de l'Armée Française, publié par les Ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand, Histoire Naturelle, Paris
1(3): 1–128
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). Publication date set by ICZN, see: "International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature [ICZN] (1987) Opinion 1461: A ruling on the authorship and dates of the text volumes of the Histoire naturelle section of Savigny's Description de l'Egypte. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 44: 219-220", available at BHL
Savigny plates The plates of Savigny's annelids were published separately and earlier and without captions - Go to https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42247075 (for discussion of dates see Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Gil, João; San Martín, Guillermo. 2015. Unveiling the Rosetta Stone of syllids)
On p. 96 discussing Arenicola (Telethusae) Savigny has a remarkable footnote of interest because it indicates input by Savigny into the 'Systeme des Annelides' after his unpublished MS was available to Lamarck & Cuvier. He writes (transl) "I read in the l'Histoire des animaux sans vertèbres [by Lamarck]: "Mr. Savigny places the Arenicole among the Serpulous Annelids; he assures that the animal has hooked bristles and that it lives in a tube" As the end of this paragraph presents an equivocal meaning, I believe I must reproduce here the passage from my memoirs that M. de Lamarck then had before his eyes: "The Arenicoles must form in the order of the Serpulea a third family, which will be sufficiently distinguished from the second by the presence of the gills, and from the first by the position of these gills towards the middle of the body.... [etc]"
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Amphictene Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Amphictene aegyptia Savigny, 1822 accepted as Pectinaria aegyptia (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Amphictene capensis (Pallas, 1766) (new combination reference)
Amytis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Proceraea Ehlers, 1864 (original description)
Aonis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 (original description)
Aphrodita carunculata Pallas, 1766 accepted as Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1766) (new combination reference)
Aricia Savigny, 1822 accepted as Orbinia Quatrefages, 1866 (original description)
Aricia sertulata Savigny, 1822 accepted as Orbinia sertulata (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Aristenia Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Aristenia conspurcata Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Branchellion Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Castalia Savigny, 1822 accepted as Nereimyra Blainville, 1828 (original description)
Chloeia Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Chloeia capillata (Bruguière, 1789) accepted as Chloeia flava (Pallas, 1766) (additional source)
Clepsine Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Clymene amphistoma Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Euclymene amphistoma (Lamarck, 1818) (redescription)
Clymene lumbricalis (Fabricius, 1780) accepted as Nicomache lumbricalis (Fabricius, 1780) (new combination reference)
Clymene uranthus Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Eteone Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Eulalia Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Euphrosyne [auct.] accepted as Euphrosine Lamarck, 1818 (basis of record)
Euphrosyne laureata Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Euphrosine laureata Lamarck, 1818 (redescription)
Euphrosyne myrtosa Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Euphrosine myrtosa Lamarck, 1818 (redescription)
Eurythoe alcyonia [auct. misspelling of alcyonea] accepted as Eurythoe complanata (Pallas, 1766) (additional source)
Glycera Lamarck, 1818 (redescription)
Glycera unicornis Lamarck, 1818 (redescription)
Hermella Savigny, 1822 accepted as Sabellaria Lamarck, 1818 (original description)
Hermella alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767) accepted as Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767) (source of synonymy)
Hesione festiva Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Hesione pantherina Risso, 1826 (additional source)
Hesione splendida Lamarck, 1818 (redescription)
Hirudinea (original description)
Leodice gigantea Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Eunice aphroditois (Pallas, 1788) (taxonomy source)
Lycastis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Syllis Lamarck, 1818 (original description)
Lycoridae Grube, 1850 accepted as Nereididae Blainville, 1818 (additional source)
Lycoris fucata Savigny, 1822 accepted as Neanthes fucata (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Lycoris nubila Savigny, 1822 accepted as Neanthes nubila (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Lycoris nuntia Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Perinereis nuntia (Lamarck, 1818) (additional source)
Lycoris podophylla Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Lycoris pulsatoria Savigny, 1822 accepted as Nereis pulsatoria (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Myriana Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Myriana longissima Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Nephthys [variant spelling of Nephtys] accepted as Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 (basis of record)
Nephtys hombergii Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Ophelia Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Ophelia bicornis Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Pleione Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Amphinome Bruguière, 1789 (additional source)
Pleione vagans Savigny, 1822 accepted as Amphinome vagans (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Polynice Savigny, 1822 accepted as Proceraea Ehlers, 1864 (original description)
Polynoe cirrata Savigny, 1822 accepted as Bylgides sarsi (Kinberg in Malmgren, 1866) (original description)
Polynoe muricata Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Iphione muricata (Lamarck, 1818) (redescription)
Polynoe scolopendrina Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Sabella flabellata Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Sabella grandis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Sabellastarte indica (Savigny, 1822) accepted as Sabellastarte spectabilis (Grube, 1878) (original description)
Sabella indica Savigny, 1822 accepted as Sabellastarte spectabilis (Grube, 1878) (original description)
Sabella judica Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Sabella pavonina Savigny, 1822 (original description)
Sabella ventilabrum (Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1791) accepted as Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (new combination reference)
Serpula (Spiramella) bispiralis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Protula bispiralis (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Serpula bicornis (Abildgaard, 1789) accepted as Spirobranchus giganteus (Pallas, 1766) (new combination reference)
Serpula bispiralis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Protula bispiralis (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Serpula stellata (Abildgaard, 1789) accepted as Pomatostegus stellatus (Abildgaard, 1789) (new combination reference)
Syllis Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Syllis monilaris Lamarck, 1818 (additional source)
Telethusae Savigny, 1822 accepted as Arenicolidae Johnston, 1835 (original description)
Terebella medusa Savigny, 1822 accepted as Loimia medusa (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Terebella scylla Savigny, 1822 accepted as Amphitrite scylla (Savigny, 1822) (original description)
Thalassema vulgaris Savigny, 1822 accepted as Echiurus vulgaris (Savigny, 1822) accepted as Echiurus echiurus (Pallas, 1766) (original description)
Indian Ocean for Protula bispiralis (Savigny, 1822) 
La Rochelle for Aricia sertulata Savigny, 1822 




 Authority

Solely authored by Savigny, 1822. However, the Hartman catalogue (1959: 455) lists Clymene uranthus as "Savigny, ... [details]

 Authority

Lamarck (1818) clearly took the species name from the Savigny MS, not published until 1822, as he cites the MS, but ... [details]

 Authority

Usage confused. Grube (1850) awards Savigny the prior authorship of Grube's "Lycoridea" [sic], while himself at ... [details]

 Authority

Savigny is apparently recombining a name, Terebella vagans Leach found "in Litteris", in which case W E Leach is ... [details]

 Authority

Usually given as a Cuvier name, but the name was first published by Savigny (1822) as an invalid name in synonymy ... [details]

 Classification

Although Savigny grouped Myriana in his Nereididae family, this is not much help today as Savigny included a ... [details]

 Classification

N. ebranchiata was tentatively suggested to be in Oenone by Savigny (1822). He wrote "OBSERVATION. La Nereis ... [details]

 Depth range

Not stated, probably intertidal to shallow water. [details]

 Diagnosis

Original diagnosis by Savigny (1822: 46): "10.o Nereïs prismatica. OTH. FABR. n.o 285, et MÜLL. Prodr. n.o 2637. ... [details]

 Diagnosis

Original diagnosis by Savigny (1822: 46, footnote): "8.º Nereis flava. Oth. Fabr. loc. cit. n.º 282. Paroît ... [details]

 Diagnosis

Original diagnosis by Savigny as follows: "Paroissent avoir une longue trompe couronnée de tentacules; quatre ... [details]

 Diagnosis

Original diagnosis by Savigny (1822: 46): "9.o Neréis bifrons. OTH. FABR. n.o 286, et MÜLL. Prodr. n.o 2638. ... [details]

 Distribution

Indian Ocean: Gulf of Suez (Red Sea). [details]

 Editor's comment

This name usage by Savigny is notable for the citation of the Amphitrite ventilabrum usage in Lamarck (as "Lam. ... [details]

 Editor's comment

On p. 96 discussing Arenicola (Telethusae) Savigny has a remarkable footnote of interest because it indicates input ... [details]

 Etymology

Savigny (1822: 88) gives no clues as to the etymology of Amphictene. However, it is highly likely it is a compound ... [details]

 Etymology

Not stated, unknown. Maybe from one of the female historical characters of the Persian history named Amytis. [details]

 Etymology

Not stated. Aricia is a Greek town, a location holy to Diana (equated with Artemis), near Rome. However, in ... [details]

 Etymology

Not stated, unknown. Maybe from the classic mythology (a deity like the Naiads, Nereids or Oceanids). [details]

 Etymology

Not stated in Savigny (1822: 45). The name appears to be a latinized form of the female Greek name Λυκαστη ... [details]

 Etymology

Unknown, maybe mythological origin.  [details]

 Etymology

Not stated, unknown. Maybe from Polynices of the Greek mythology, son of Oedipus and Jocasta and brother of ... [details]

 Etymology

Not stated. The specific epithet medusa refers probably to Medusa, the monster of the Greek mythology described as ... [details]

 Grammatical gender

Not determined for certain by the editor (GBR), but treated as feminine by the genus author and most authors since. [details]

 Grammatical gender

Feminine. While perhaps mistakenly thought to be a female given name, nevertheless Savigny seems to indicate he ... [details]

 Grammatical gender

Feminine as Lycaste is a Greek female given name [details]

 Habitat

On the Fucus floating vaguely on the surface of the sea: "sur les fucus qui flottent vaguement à la surface de la ... [details]

 Habitat

Not clearly stated, but probably on or near the coast: "Espèce nouvelle des côtes dela mer Rouge" (Savigny, 1822: 85). [details]

 Homonymy

Savigny's name is clearly independent of the Sabella indica name published in Gmelin, 1791. There is no connection ... [details]

 Homonymy

Recombination of original name Sabella indica Savigny which is an invalid primary junior homonym, therefore both ... [details]

 Nomenclature

An orphan name oddity without an included species proposed as genus name for Nereis caeca, and mentioned just as a ... [details]

 Nomenclature

Savigny evidently got the name 'Nereis pulsatoria' from prior usage in works of Montagu and Leach, but probably ... [details]

 Nomenclature

Blainville (1825: 443) in a long dictionary entry recombined many disparate polychaetes into his very broad concept ... [details]

 Nomenclature

The first appearance of this name seems to be in Savigny's 1822 annelid volumes of Description de l'Égypte (p.77). ... [details]

 Spelling

Euphrosyne is the usual transliterated spelling of the name of the Greek Goddess, but Lamarck (1818) used ... [details]

 Spelling

Most Eurythoe alyconea usages will be as Eurythoe alyconia. Lamarck was first to publish the species as 'alyconea' ... [details]

 Status

Fauchald dismisses the Linnaeus name of 'Nereis gigantea' as indeterminable (although it is referring to an ... [details]

 Status

Sabella flabellata was Savigny's new name for Tubularia penicillus sensu Fabricius (there are several T. ... [details]

 Status

Savigny (1822) gives no explanation of his 'Telethusae' family name for Arenicola species so we have no information ... [details]

 Synonymy

Hermella Savigny 1822 on p.81 was for the species represented by the synonymy (as in Savigny) of Tubularia arenosa ... [details]

 Synonymy

Lamarck and Savigny used Pleione, presumably arising first in the Savigny unpublished MS, instead of Amphinome, ... [details]

 Taxonomy

The combination A. capensis in Amphictene Savigny, 1822 has existed since the creation of Amphictene, but ... [details]

 Taxonomy

Lamarck (1818) gives a description only of the tube (attached to hard surfaces), and acknowledges the species name ... [details]

 Taxonomy

Savigny bases his new combination on Amphitrite ventilabrum Gmelin, 1791, also including the pre-linnean name of ... [details]

 Taxonomy

In spite of being the type of a complex genus with numerous described taxa, the species was not redescribed since ... [details]

 Type locality

Atlantic Ocean, France, La Rochelle.  [details]

 Type locality

"côtes de l'océan" [of France], is here a reference to the Atlantic coast of France. The specimen was collected ... [details]

 Type locality

Unknown. Although Hartman's Catalogue (p.248) places Lycoris nubila as Red Sea, this appears to be very probably ... [details]

 Type locality

Locality unknown. Savigny writes "Espèce des mers d'Europe, communiqùée par MM. Leach et de Lamarck." He also ... [details]

 Type locality

England, Atlantic Ocean: "Petite espèce des côtes de l'Angleterre" (Savigny, 1822: 60). [details]

 Type locality

"les mers des Inde", collected by Péron, and thus probably from Australia [details]

 Type locality

Suez and surrounding waters, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate 29.92°, 32.53°). [details]

 Type species

Savigny (1822:89) includes a number of pectinariids as synonyms of Amphictene auricoma, including Pectinaria ... [details]