WoRMS taxon details
original description
Che Engku Abdullah, Che Engku Siti Mariam; Idris, Izwandy; Fahmi, Afiq Durrani Mohd; Flaxman, Beth; Hutchings, Pat. (2024). Four new species of <em>Marphysa</em> (Annelida, Eunicida, Eunicidae) from the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 1204: 65-103., available online at https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/117261/element/8/209180// page(s): 87, figures 1, 2, 11–13; note: Published with incorrect neuter gender ending of 'setiuense'.
Setiu Wetlands, Terengganu, East coast Peninsular Malaysia, 5.6531 N, 102.7532 E (05°39.183'N, 102°45.194'E) [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype UMTAnn 2177, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, geounit Malaysian part of the South China Sea [details]
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Etymology Marphysa setuiensis, corrected from incorrect gender suffix 'setuiense' as published, is named from the type locality of Setiu Wetlands. [details]
Nomenclature Marphysa is feminine gender, therefore the geographic adjectival species-group suffix is '-ensis' (masculine and feminine) and not '-ense' (neuter). Under Code article 31.2, Agreement in gender (and article 34.2 Mandatory changes), a Latinized adjective must agree in gender with the generic name. The other three geographic names created by the authors are correctly '-ensis', but inexplicably the fourth species was published assigned an incorrect suffix. The WoRMS database must use the correct suffix, but we have recorded the incorrect original suffix in a separate entry for the purposes of alerting users to the error. [details]
Type locality Setiu Wetlands, Terengganu, East coast Peninsular Malaysia, 5.6531 N, 102.7532 E (05°39.183'N, 102°45.194'E) [details]
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