WoRMS taxon details
Marphysa haemasona Quatrefages, 1866
1548183 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1548183)
accepted
Species
Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866] · unaccepted (misspelling)
Marphysa hemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866] · unaccepted (misspelling)
marine
recent only
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 334; note: Table Bay, South Africa [details]
page(s): 334; note: Table Bay, South Africa [details]
Holotype MNHN type 613
, Type locality contained in Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Holotype MNHN type 613 [details]
type locality contained in Cape of Good Hope [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in South Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in South Africa [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa haemasona Quatrefages, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1548183 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 334; note: Table Bay, South Africa [details]
original description (of Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008) Lewis, Ceri; Karageorgopoulos, Perikles. (2008). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> (Eunicidae) from the western Cape of South Africa. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 88(2): 277-287., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531540800009X [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 334; note: Table Bay, South Africa [details]
original description (of Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008) Lewis, Ceri; Karageorgopoulos, Perikles. (2008). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> (Eunicidae) from the western Cape of South Africa. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 88(2): 277-287., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531540800009X [details] Available for editors
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Kara, Jothi; Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Zanol, Joana; Simon, Carol; Idris, Izwandy. (2020). Morphological and molecular systematic review of Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865 (Annelida: Eunicidae) species from South Africa. <em>PeerJ.</em> 8: e10076., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10076
note: misspelled as 'haemasoma' [details] Available for editors [request]
note: misspelled as 'haemasoma' [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype MNHN type 613 [details]
Paratype (of Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008) BMNH 2007.69 [details]
Paratype (of Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008) SAMC SAM-A21479 [details]
Paratype (of Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008) SAMC SAM-A21480 [details]
Paratype (of Marphysa elityeni Lewis & Karageorgopoulos, 2008) SAMC SAM-A21481 [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling In his text the spelling heading by Quatrefages is as 'haemasona', also as hemasone in vernacular French, and haemsona on the pre-existing museum label, so 'sona' instead of 'soma' is apparently intentional. The spelling of 'haemasoma' (blood-red body) would be expected as it is the correct Latin, and consequently the misspelling 'haemasoma' has incorrectly been used by almost all subsequent taxonomists, including Grube (1854, 1870), Fauvel (1902, 1927), Day (1967) and recently by Kara, Molina-Acevedo et al (2021). However, the Hartman catalogue (1959: 321) is an exception and uses the original 'haemasona' spelling. The specimen evidently was in the museum collection, labelled as Eunice haemasona. The published catalogue of Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle annelid types (Solís-Weiss et al, 2004) has the spelling as 'hoemasoma', which has an additional lapsus. As the name has had relatively few usages it seems best to continue Quatrefages' original spelling. Under Code article 32.5 it is not an incorrect original spelling; apparent incorrect Latinizations may be errors when viewed against a Latin dictionary, but as they were deliberately published with that spelling (error) they are not corrected. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866])
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Marphysa haemasoma) (from synonym Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866])
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866])
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Marphysa haemasoma) (from synonym Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866])
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Marphysa haemasoma [misspelling for 'haemasona' of Quatrefages, 1866])
