WoRMS name details
Rhamphobrachium brevibranchiatum [auctorum]
130483 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130483)
unaccepted ('alternative' spelling of 'brevibrachiatum')
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874) Ehlers, E. (1874). Annulata nova vel minus cognita in Expeditione 'Porcupine' capta. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 4, 13: 292-298., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342680
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Rhamphobrachium brevibranchiatum [auctorum]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130483 on 2025-04-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874) Ehlers, E. (1874). Annulata nova vel minus cognita in Expeditione 'Porcupine' capta. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 4, 13: 292-298., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342680
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
basis of record 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]
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
basis of record 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]
Taxonomy
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Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Editor's comment The 'brevibranchiatum' spelling is not incorrect, viewed strictly, as Ehlers used it in 1874, but he did not use it in 1875, and if authors were citing the date of the species as 1875 they were not correct to use that spelling. See also comments under the original 1874 name and under the current name (Rhamphobrachium (Spinigerium) brevibrachiatum [details]
