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Polychaeta taxon details

Thoracophelia furcifera Ehlers, 1897

339493 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339493)

accepted
Species
Euzonus (Thoracophelia) furcifera (Ehlers, 1897) · unaccepted (superseded recombination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93.</em> 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 101-103, plate VII figs. 164-167 [details] 
Note Strait of Magellan  
Type locality Strait of Magellan [details]
Taxonomy Revalidated consequent upon Euzonus becoming invalid.  
Taxonomy Revalidated consequent upon Euzonus becoming invalid. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Thoracophelia furcifera Ehlers, 1897. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339493 on 2026-09-29
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2011-04-04 01:05:45Z
changed

original description Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Polychaeten. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93.</em> 3: 1-148, 9 plates., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46140179
page(s): 101-103, plate VII figs. 164-167 [details] 

additional source Diez, María Emilia ; Mohamed, Nadia; Rizzo, Alexandra E.; Cremonte, Florencia. (2026). Morphological study and new geographic records of opheliids and travisiid (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Argentine Patagonian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5802(1): 145-156., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5802.1.8
page(s): 149, figure 2A-J; note: new record from Punta Marqués, Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina (45º57’S, 67º32’W) intertidal zone, sandy substrate [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Ehlers, Ermst. (1901). Die Polychaeten des magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes. Ein faunistischer Versuch. <em>Festschrift zur Feier des Hundertfünfzigjährigen Bestehens des Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-Physikalischen Klasse.</em> 1-232, 25 plates., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=TqxRAAAAMAAJ&pg
page(s): 175 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

source of synonymy Hartman, Olga. (1966). Polychaeta Myzostomidae and Sedentaria of Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series. 7: vii 1-158., available online at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1029/AR007 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

status source Blake, James A. (2011). Revalidation of the genus Thoracophelia Ehlers, 1897, replacing Euzonus Grube, 1866 (Polychaeta: Opheliidae), junior homonym of Euzonus Menge, 1854 (Arthropoda: Diplopoda), together with a literature summary and updated listing of Thoracophelia species. Zootaxa, 2807: 65-68, available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2807.1.5 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Revalidated consequent upon Euzonus becoming invalid. [details]

Unreviewed
Type locality Strait of Magellan [details]
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