WoRMS taxon details
Mexieulepis Rioja, 1962
324816 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324816)
accepted
Genus
Mexieulepis elongatus Rioja, 1962 accepted as Mexieulepis weberi (Horst, 1922) (type by monotypy)
Japoeulepis Imajima, 1974 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
- Species Mexieulepis amioi (Imajima, 1974)
- Species Mexieulepis mexicanus (Berkeley & Berkeley, 1939)
- Species Mexieulepis weberi (Horst, 1922)
- Species Mexieulepis elongata Rioja, 1962 accepted as Mexieulepis weberi (Horst, 1922) (subjective synonym, but correct gender suffix)
- Species Mexieulepis elongatus Rioja, 1962 accepted as Mexieulepis weberi (Horst, 1922) (subjective synonym, incorrect gender suffix)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Rioja, Enrique. (1962). Estudios anelidologicos. XXV. Un nuevo genero de la familia Pareulepidae, del Golfo de Mexico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico.</em> 32(1/2): 235-249. [details] Available for editors 
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Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Mexieulepis Rioja, 1962. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324816 on 2025-03-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Rioja, Enrique. (1962). Estudios anelidologicos. XXV. Un nuevo genero de la familia Pareulepidae, del Golfo de Mexico. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biologia, Mexico.</em> 32(1/2): 235-249. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Japoeulepis Imajima, 1974) Imajima, Minoru. (1974). Occurrence of species of three families, Eulepethidae, Apistobranchidae, and Heterospionidae (Polychaeta) from Japan. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo.</em> 17(1): 57-64.
page(s): 57-58 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Japoeulepis Imajima, 1974) Imajima, Minoru. (1974). Occurrence of species of three families, Eulepethidae, Apistobranchidae, and Heterospionidae (Polychaeta) from Japan. <em>Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo.</em> 17(1): 57-64.
page(s): 57-58 [details] Available for editors
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redescription
Pettibone, M.H. (1969). Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Eulepethidae Chamberlin (=Eulepidinae Darboux; =Pareulepidae Hartman). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 41: 1-44., available online at http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/5690 [details]
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Grammatical gender Mexieulepis appears to have been treated (incorrectly) as masculine by its creator, Enrique Rioja, as the type species was named M. elongatus. However, Pettibone (1969) stated Mexieulepis was feminine, presumably because Eulepis was feminine, and indeed the word Lepis (a scale) is a feminine Greek noun. Mexieulepis must be feminine [details]
