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Polychaeta taxon details

Marphysa furcellata Crossland, 1903

336725  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336725)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Crossland, Cyril. (1903). On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - Polychaeta. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 73(2): 129-144, plates XIV-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31610178 [details]   
Note Indian Ocean, Zanzibar, eastern Africa  
Type locality Indian Ocean, Zanzibar, eastern Africa [details]
Taxonomy placed under M. sanguinea by Day (1934), but today regarded as distinct (eg Glasby et al, 2010)  
Taxonomy placed under M. sanguinea by Day (1934), but today regarded as distinct (eg Glasby et al, 2010) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa furcellata Crossland, 1903. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336725 on 2024-04-18
Date
action
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2010-05-12 05:44:10Z
changed

original description Crossland, Cyril. (1903). On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - Polychaeta. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 73(2): 129-144, plates XIV-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31610178 [details]   

additional source Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 39(263): 15-82., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x
page(s): 50; note: treated as a synonym of Marphysa sanguinea. Superseded placement [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy Fauchald, K. (1987). Redescription of the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(2): 375-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34570779 [details]   

status source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2
page(s): 44; note: various comments and a key support the authors' contention Marphysa furcellata is a valid species [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Taxonomy placed under M. sanguinea by Day (1934), but today regarded as distinct (eg Glasby et al, 2010) [details]

From other sources
Type locality Indian Ocean, Zanzibar, eastern Africa [details]