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Polychaeta taxon details

Capitella minima Langerhans, 1880

129879  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129879)

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Capitomastus minima (Langerhans, 1880) · unaccepted (superseded recombination,...)  
superseded recombination, incorrect gender agreement spelling
Capitomastus minimus (Langerhans, 1880) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)

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Langerhans, Paul. (1880). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira. III. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 34(1): 87-143, plates IV-VI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42353743
page(s): 99-100, plate IV fig. 12 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Note Madeira (further location unspecified)  
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Type locality Madeira (further location unspecified) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Capitella minima Langerhans, 1880. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129879 on 2024-04-23
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original description Langerhans, Paul. (1880). Die Wurmfauna von Madeira. III. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 34(1): 87-143, plates IV-VI., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42353743
page(s): 99-100, plate IV fig. 12 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

taxonomy source Green, Karen D. (2002). Capitellidae (Polychaeta) from the Andaman Sea. <em>Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication.</em> 24: 249–343.
note: records from the Pacific (Langerhans species was from Atlantic Madeira) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

additional source Magalhães, Wagner F.; Bailey-Brock, Julie H. 2012. Capitellidae Grube, 1862 (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Hawaiian Islands with description of two new species. Zootaxa *(3581): 1-52 , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3581.html
page(s): 10 [details]   

additional source de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. <em>World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.</em> (look up in IMIS[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]   

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]   

status source Eisig, H. 1887. Monographie der Capitelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden meeres-abschnitte nebst untersuchungen zur vergleichenden anatomie und physiologie. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte, 16: xxvi + 906 pp. + 37 plates., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.7348
note: Eisig created Capitomastus genus for Capitella with capillaries to chaetiger 4 and Capitella minima was used as the type species. Currently Capitomastus is a synonym of Capitella [details]   
 
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Unknown type, geounit Madeira [details]
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Authority The only interpretation possible of Langerhans' original text is that Langerhans intended Capitella minima to be an instance of Ancistria minima Quatrefages 1866, thus a recombination from Ancistria and not a new species. Langerhans (transl) states "From a fish basket I got 6 specimens of an interesting Capitella, which is probably identical to Ancistria minima Quatrefages." He gives the citation for Quatrefages species in a footnote. At the end of his description he states "If this species agrees with the above, then Quatrefages only specimen was probably a young one". However, subsequent authors have ignored this evidence and treated Langerhans' instance as a new species. As Quatrefages' species is currently a synonym of Heteromastus filiformis, but also regarded as indeterminable (Hutchings & Rainer 1982), it seems best to not disturb the validity of Capitella minima sensu Langerhans which has been subsequently reported and was the basis of genus Capitomastus (see eg Green, 2002) [details]

Type locality Madeira (further location unspecified) [details]