WoRMS taxon details
Marphysa orientalis (Willey, 1905)
1459682 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1459682)
accepted
Species
Paramarphysa orientalis Willey, 1905 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Paramarphysa orientalis Willey, 1905) Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 283, plate 4, figure 5; note: Cheval Paar, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [details]
page(s): 283, plate 4, figure 5; note: Cheval Paar, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [details]
Type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Sri Lankan Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Homonymy Hutchings et al (2020) note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis'...
Homonymy Hutchings et al (2020) note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis' truly belongs in Marphysa [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa orientalis (Willey, 1905). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1459682 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Paramarphysa orientalis Willey, 1905) Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 283, plate 4, figure 5; note: Cheval Paar, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [details]
new combination reference Zanol, J.; Halanych, K. M.; Fauchald, K. (2014). Reconciling taxonomy and phylogeny in the bristleworm family Eunicidae (polychaete, Annelida). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 43(1), 79-100., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12034/abstract
page(s): 93, 97; note: authors synonymize Paramarphysa to Marphysa, and do not regard lack of branchiae as a generic-level character [details]
page(s): 283, plate 4, figure 5; note: Cheval Paar, Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka [details]
new combination reference Zanol, J.; Halanych, K. M.; Fauchald, K. (2014). Reconciling taxonomy and phylogeny in the bristleworm family Eunicidae (polychaete, Annelida). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 43(1), 79-100., available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zsc.12034/abstract
page(s): 93, 97; note: authors synonymize Paramarphysa to Marphysa, and do not regard lack of branchiae as a generic-level character [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Hutchings, Pat; Lavesque, Nicolas; Priscilla, Lyndsay; Daffe, Guillemine; Malathi, E.; Glasby, Christopher J. (2020). A new species of Marphysa (Annelida: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from India, with notes on previously described or reported species from the region. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4852(3): 285-308., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4853.3.2
page(s): 285; note: authors note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis' truly belongs in Marphysa [details]
page(s): 285; note: authors note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis' truly belongs in Marphysa [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment This combination is not formally published in literature, nor was it listed in WoRMS prior to Hutchings et al (2020) (cf their text), but Paramarphysa orientalis was the last 'orphan' taxon remaining in the invalid genus Paramarphysa, after other species were recombined in Marphysa or Nicidion. Hutchings et al (2020: 285) suggested it belonged to the Marphysa "Aenea-group (compound falcigers present; compound spinigers absent)", but did not formally place it there. Subsequently Molina-Acevedo & Idris (2021: 26 of 28) informally discuss the species as Marphysa orientalis (Willey, 1905) and consider it indeterminable because the type is apparently lost and the original description is inadequate. [details]Homonymy Hutchings et al (2020) note potential senior secondary homonymy to M orientalis Treadwell, 1936, if Willey's 'orientalis' truly belongs in Marphysa [details]
