WoRMS name details
Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874
339411 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339411)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Ehlers, E. (1874). Annulata nova vel minus cognita in Expeditione 'Porcupine' capta. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 4, 13: 292-298., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342680
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
Type locality contained in North East Atlantic
, Note Celtic Sea, west of Brittany, 48.8333, ...
type locality contained in North East Atlantic [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Celtic Sea, west of Brittany, 48.8333, -11.1166, 1326 m (Ehlers: "48° 50' lat. bor., 11° 7' long, occid., fundo 725 orgyiarum"), eastern Atlantic Ocean [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Diopatra brevibrachiata Ehlers, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339411 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Ehlers, E. (1874). Annulata nova vel minus cognita in Expeditione 'Porcupine' capta. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 4, 13: 292-298., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24342680
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
page(s): 295 [no figures]; note: Deep sea in Celtic Sea. Ehlers uses the spelling 'brevibranchiata' here, although later (1875, 1877) he switched to 'brevibrachiata' [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Ehlers, E. (1875). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Verticalverbreitung der Borstenwürmer im Meere. <em>Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 25: 1-102, plates I-IV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45143254
page(s): 49, plate 3 figures 11-21; note: Although labelled as a new species the description as 'brevibrachiata' is effectively a redescription as Ehlers (1874) had already briefly named and described the specimens, using the spelling 'brevib...
[details]
page(s): 49, plate 3 figures 11-21; note: Although labelled as a new species the description as 'brevibrachiata' is effectively a redescription as Ehlers (1874) had already briefly named and described the specimens, using the spelling 'brevib...
Although labelled as a new species the description as 'brevibrachiata' is effectively a redescription as Ehlers (1874) had already briefly named and described the specimens, using the spelling 'brevibranchiata'.
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Publication date Ehlers published Diopatra brevibrachiata as a new species twice, using two spellings, thus causing some confusion subsequently. There was a Latin description without figures in Ehlers (1874: 295) with the spelling as 'brevibranchiata' and the next year a full description in German of three and a half pages, with a figure in plate 3 in Ehlers (1875: 49) as 'brevibrachiata'. The 1874 date has priority, but the spelling issue is still confused. Hartman's (1965: 113) listing as a recombination in Rhamphobrachium uses the wrong date (1875). She also spells the species name as 'brevibranchiata' which was the spelling Ehlers used in 1874, not in 1875. [details]Spelling Ehlers (1874) first used 'brevibranchiata' and then (Ehlers, 1875 and 1877) he used 'brevibrachiata'. Strictly 'brevibranchiata' should be the spelling, but 'brevibrachiata' from the full description of Ehlers has become the spelling mainly used, for example in Paxton (1986). Ehlers described both Diopatra socialis and Diopatra brevibranchiata in 1874 as new species in an English language journal, and in 1875 he described them again in a German language journal. This duplication was not unusual at the time, but unfortunately he changed the spelling of the second species to 'brevibrachiata' (used more than once). Thus there are no consequences for the nomenclature of D socialis, but a problem was created for D. brevibranchiata. WoRMS currently uses 'brevibrachiata' but the usage probably requires re-examination by an onuphid expert. [details]
Type locality Celtic Sea, west of Brittany, 48.8333, -11.1166, 1326 m (Ehlers: "48° 50' lat. bor., 11° 7' long, occid., fundo 725 orgyiarum"), eastern Atlantic Ocean [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
