WoRMS taxon details
Marphysa furcellata Crossland, 1903
336725 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336725)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Crossland, Cyril. (1903). On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - Polychaeta. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 73(2): 129-144, plates XIV-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31610178 [details]
Note Indian Ocean, Zanzibar, eastern Africa
Type locality Indian Ocean, Zanzibar, eastern Africa [details]
Taxonomy placed under M. sanguinea by Day (1934), but today regarded as distinct (eg Glasby et al, 2010)
Taxonomy placed under M. sanguinea by Day (1934), but today regarded as distinct (eg Glasby et al, 2010) [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa furcellata Crossland, 1903. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336725 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Crossland, Cyril. (1903). On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa, from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901 and 1902. - Polychaeta. Part II. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 73(2): 129-144, plates XIV-XV., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31610178 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Fauchald, K. (1987). Redescription of the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 100(2): 375-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34570779 [details]
status source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2
page(s): 44; note: various comments and a key support the authors' contention Marphysa furcellata is a valid species [details] Available for editors
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status source Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia A. (2010). A new species of <i>Marphysa</i> Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus <i>Nauphanta</i> Kinberg, 1865. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2352(1): 29–45., available online at http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2352.1.2
page(s): 44; note: various comments and a key support the authors' contention Marphysa furcellata is a valid species [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 39(263): 15-82., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x
page(s): 50; note: treated as a synonym of Marphysa sanguinea. Superseded placement [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 50; note: treated as a synonym of Marphysa sanguinea. Superseded placement [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
