WoRMS taxon details
Polyophthalmus Quatrefages, 1850
129415 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129415)
- Species Polyophthalmus australis Grube, 1869
- Species Polyophthalmus ceylonensis Kükenthal, 1887
- Species Polyophthalmus collaris Michaelsen, 1892
- Species Polyophthalmus longisetosus Michaelsen, 1892
- Species Polyophthalmus mauliola Magalhães, Rizzo & Bailey-Brock, 2019
- Species Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839)
- Species Polyophthalmus qingdaoensis Purschke, Ding & Müller, 1995
- Species Polyophthalmus striatus Kükenthal, 1887
- Species Polyophthalmus translucens Hartman, 1960
- Species Polyophthalmus zhadanae Parapar, Al-Kandari, Candás & Moreira, 2021
- Species Polyophthalmus agilis Quatrefages, 1850 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus dubius Quatrefages, 1850 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus ehrenbergi Quatrefages, 1850 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus floridanus Augener, 1922 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus incertus Treadwell, 1936 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus pallidus Claparède, 1869 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus papillatus Treadwell, 1943 accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (subjective synonym)
- Species Polyophthalmus picta [auct. misspelling] accepted as Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) (lapsus)
page(s): 9; note: describes 3 new species and additionally includes Nais picta [details]
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page(s): 9; note: describes 3 new species and additionally includes Nais picta [details]
original description (of Armandiella McIntosh, 1915) McIntosh, William Carmichel. (1915). Polychaeta, Opheliidae to Ammocharidae. <em>A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids.</em> The Ray Society, London, 3 (1): i-viii, 1-368 (text)., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38532650
page(s): 19, plate XCV, figure 5; note: created for Armandia robertianae [details]
original description (of Aloysina Claparède, 1864) Claparède, Édouard. (1864). Glanures zootomiques parmi les annélides de Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève.</em> 17(2): 463-600, plates I-VIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.1972
page(s): 468; note: Aloysina is a genus name tentatively proposed by Claparède in a footnote to his observations on Polyophthalmus pictus [details]
additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [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 Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
identification resource Parapar, Julio, Al-Kandari, Manal, Candás, María, Moreira, Juan. (2021). A new species of Polyophthalmus (Annelida, Opheliidae) from the Arabian Gulf, with an insight on internal anatomy and diversity of the genus. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5052(4): 501-528., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5052.4.3
page(s): 522; note: Key to species of Polyophthalmus Quatrefages, 1850 of Indian and Pacific Oceans [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Etymology Not stated, but clearly named for the presence of the lateral segmental eyes which are mentioned more than once. In Greek Poly = many, ophthalmos = eyes. [details]
Synonymy The Hartman catalogue (1959:434) listed every original Polyophthalmus species name except P. striatus Kukenthal, 1887 as a synonym of Polyophthalmus pictus. These were agilis, australis, ceylonensis, collaris, dubius, ehrenbergi, floridanus, incertus, longisetosus, pallidus, papillatus, and pictus pontica. The basis on which she gave them this status is unknown. Parapar et al (October 2021: 523) stated that "According to Read & Fauchald (2021) [this WoRMS database] only four [Polyophthalmus] species are considered valid". These were P. pictus, plus the modern species P. translucens, P. quingdaoensis and P. mauliola.
Parapar et al (October 2021) summarized the past literature as follows: "Gravier (1905) suggested P. ehrenbergi, P. dubius, P. pallidus and “probably P. ceylonensis” as synonyms of P. pictus; this opinion was followed by Augener (1914). Fauvel (1919, 1925, 1927, 1933a, b) supported the idea of a worldwide distribution for P. pictus and proposed P. ceylonensis and P. collaris as synonyms of the former (Fauvel 1932). Later, Hartman (1959) raised to 13 [actually 12] the number of synonyms of P. pictus. However, Purschke et al. (1995) suggested that only the European species are synonyms of P. pictus; Magalhães et al. (2019) also stated the need to “revise the P. pictus species complex”, [an] opinion also followed by Blake & Maciolek (2020) and Parapar et al. (February 2021)."
An overview of the family by Blake & Maciolek (2020, Handbook of Zoology) listed the following Polyophthalmus as likely valid, although the background evidence for this was not published.
Polyophthalmus australis Grube, 1869 Cape York, Australia
Polyophthalmus ceylonensis Kükenthal, 1887 Sri Lanka
Polyophthalmus collaris Michaelsen, 1892 Sri Lanka
Polyophthalmus longisetosus Michaelsen, 1892 Sri Lanka
Polyophthalmus mauliola Magalhães, Rizzo and Bailey-Brock, 2019 Mamala Bay, Hawaii
Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) France
Polyophthalmus qingdaoensis Purschke, Ding and Müller, 1995 Qingdao, Yellow Sea
Polyophthalmus striatus Kükenthal, 1887 Hong Kong
Polyophthalmus translucens Hartman, 1960 Southern California
Parapar et al (October 2021) included in their identification key, as probably valid, P. pictus plus P. qingdaoensis, P. striatus, P. mauliola, P. ceylonensis, P. collaris, P. longisetous, P. australis, and their new species P. zhadanae, whereas the following were considered to be still P. pictus synonyms: P. pictus pontica, P. agilis, P. dubius, P. robertianae, P. incertus, P. floridanus, P. ehrenbergi, P. pallidus, and P. papillatus. P. translucens Hartman 1960 [q.v,] is currently suggested to be a subjective synonym (fide Sene Silva, 2007, unpublished thesis) of Ophelina abranchiata Støp-Bowitz, 1948, although note the respective type localities are geographically separated (different oceans), and Sene Silva gave no evidence to support his placement. [details]
Type species Quatrefages included in his new genus three new species (P. ehrenbergi, P. agilis, and P. dubius) and also recombined Nais picta as Polyophthalmus pictus, without naming a type species (as was normal practice for the time). Subsequent authors treat Nais picta as the type, but in any case Hartman (1959 catalogue) assigned the other names to N. picta as synonyms. [details]
| Language | Name | |
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| French | polyphthalmiens | [details] |
