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Polychaeta taxon detailsLipobranchius Cunningham & Ramage, 1888
129552 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129552)
accepted
Genus
Eumenia jeffreysii McIntosh, 1869 accepted as Lipobranchius jeffreysii (McIntosh, 1869) (type by monotypy)
Lipobranchus [auct. misspelling] · unaccepted (misspelling of 'Lipobranchius')
marine,
recent only
masculine
Cunningham, Joseph Thomas; Ramage, G.A. (1888). The Polychaeta Sedentaria of the Firth of Forth. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 33(3): 635-684., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41405556
page(s): 655 [details] 
Etymology The combining form Lipo- (Greek) here means 'without' (fide Brown, 1954), thus Lipobranchius is 'without branchiae' [note...
Etymology The combining form Lipo- (Greek) here means 'without' (fide Brown, 1954), thus Lipobranchius is 'without branchiae' [note that Lipos (Greek) meaning 'fat' is a different word]. Cunningham and Ramage (1888) state that they created a new genus for McIntosh's Eumenia jeffreysii because of "the entire absence of branchiae or branchial cirri". The numerous worms found were identified as McIntosh's species by McIntosh himself. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lipobranchius Cunningham & Ramage, 1888. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129552 on 2026-07-07
Date action by
original description
Cunningham, Joseph Thomas; Ramage, G.A. (1888). The Polychaeta Sedentaria of the Firth of Forth. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 33(3): 635-684., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41405556
page(s): 655 [details] 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] additional source 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] From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Lipobranchius is currently monotypic, containing only Lipobranchius jeffreysii (McIntosh, 1869) . However, it also was used as the basis of the name Neolipobranchius (qv) Hartman & Fauchald, 1971 (from deep water), implying a relationship. However, Neolipobranchius, apparently based on a juvenile Travisia, is no longer a valid genus in Scalibregmatidae, and is placed as a synonym of Travisia in family Travisiidae. See Blake (2025: 215 and following) for extensive discussion of the history. [details]Etymology The combining form Lipo- (Greek) here means 'without' (fide Brown, 1954), thus Lipobranchius is 'without branchiae' [note that Lipos (Greek) meaning 'fat' is a different word]. Cunningham and Ramage (1888) state that they created a new genus for McIntosh's Eumenia jeffreysii because of "the entire absence of branchiae or branchial cirri". The numerous worms found were identified as McIntosh's species by McIntosh himself. [details] Grammatical gender Masculine. The spelling 'branchius' is not a common one when referring to having branchiae. Branchos is Greek and branchialis and branchiatus would be adjectival forms. The stem 'branchi' is common as part of genera, and it is assumed the authors were creating a masculine genus by adding a -us' suffix. [details] |
