Polychaeta taxon details
original description
(of Paramarphysa orientalis Willey, 1905) Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112 page(s): 283, plate 4, figure 5; note: Cheval Paar, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [details]
taxonomy source
Hutchings, Pat; Lavesque, Nicolas; Priscilla, Lyndsay; Daffe, Guillemine; Malathi, E.; Glasby, Christopher J. (2020). A new species of Marphysa (Annelida: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from India, with notes on previously described or reported species from the region. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4852(3): 285-308., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4853.3.2 page(s): 285; note: authors note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis' truly belongs in Marphysa [details]
new combination reference
Zanol, J.; Halanych, K. M.; Fauchald, K. (2014). Reconciling taxonomy and phylogeny in the bristleworm family Eunicidae (polychaete, Annelida). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 43(1), 79-100., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12034/abstract page(s): 93, 97; note: authors synonymize Paramarphysa to Marphysa, and do not regard lack of branchiae as a generic-level character [details]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment This combination is not formally published in literature, nor was it listed in WoRMS prior to Hutchings et al (2020) (cf their text), but Paramarphysa orientalis was the last 'orphan' taxon remaining in the invalid genus Paramarphysa, after other species were recombined in Marphysa or Nicidion. Hutchings et al (2020: 285) suggested it belonged to the Marphysa "Aenea-group (compound falcigers present; compound spinigers absent)", but did not formally place it there. Subsequently Molina-Acevedo & Idris (2021: 26 of 28) informally discuss the species as Marphysa orientalis (Willey, 1905) and consider it indeterminable because the type is apparently lost and the original description is inadequate. [details]
Homonymy Hutchings et al (2020) note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis' truly belongs in Marphysa [details]
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