WoRMS taxon details
Marphysa californica Moore, 1909
336720 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336720)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Moore, J. Percy. (1909). Polychaetous annelids from Monterey Bay and San Diego, California. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 61: 235-295, plates VII-IX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288296
page(s): 251-253, plate VII figs. 13-18, plate VIII figs. 19-20 [details]
page(s): 251-253, plate VII figs. 13-18, plate VIII figs. 19-20 [details]
Note Pacific Ocean, San Diego, California
Unreviewed
Type locality Pacific Ocean, San Diego, California [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa californica Moore, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336720 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Moore, J. Percy. (1909). Polychaetous annelids from Monterey Bay and San Diego, California. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 61: 235-295, plates VII-IX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288296
page(s): 251-253, plate VII figs. 13-18, plate VIII figs. 19-20 [details]
page(s): 251-253, plate VII figs. 13-18, plate VIII figs. 19-20 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous Annelids. Part V. Eunicea. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(1): 1-237., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4679950 [details]
status source Zanol, Joana; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Struck, Torsten H.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2010). Phylogeny of the bristle worm family Eunicidae (Eunicida, Annelida) and the phylogenetic utility of noncongruent 16S, COI and 18S in combined analyses. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 55(2): 660-676., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.024
note: treated as a valid species [details] Available for editors
[request]
status source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Idris, Izwandy. (2020). Reinstatement of species belonging <em>Marphysa</em> <em>sanguinea</em> complex (Annelida: Eunicidae) and description of new species from the mid-Pacific Ocean and the Adriatic Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4816(1): 1-48., available online at https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4816.1.1
page(s): 15, figurea 5, 9E; note: redescription from holotype [details] Available for editors [request]
status source Zanol, Joana; Halanych, Kenneth M.; Struck, Torsten H.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2010). Phylogeny of the bristle worm family Eunicidae (Eunicida, Annelida) and the phylogenetic utility of noncongruent 16S, COI and 18S in combined analyses. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 55(2): 660-676., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.024
note: treated as a valid species [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Molina-Acevedo, Isabel C.; Idris, Izwandy. (2020). Reinstatement of species belonging <em>Marphysa</em> <em>sanguinea</em> complex (Annelida: Eunicidae) and description of new species from the mid-Pacific Ocean and the Adriatic Sea. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4816(1): 1-48., available online at https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4816.1.1
page(s): 15, figurea 5, 9E; note: redescription from holotype [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Hartman (1944) considered Marphysa californica a junior synonym of Marphysa sanguinea. However, Zanol et al. (2010) accepted both species as valid, as did Molina-Acevedo & Idris (2020) [details]Unreviewed
Specimen California Academy of Science, San Francisco; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia [details]Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, San Diego, California [details]
