WoRMS source details
Up to the present our knowledge of Japanese Polychaeta has been limited to the following four sources:
1870. E. Grube. Neue Anneliden aus Japan.
1879. E. v. Marenzeller. Südjapanische Anneliden.
1885. W. C. McIntosh. Challenger Report.
1903. J. P. Moore. Polychaeta from Japan, Kamtschatka and Bering Sea.
Limiting our attention to the Polychaeta Errantia alone, the number of species belonging to that group and made known by the above mentioned authors from the Japanese waters, amounts to seventy-fouir in all. Of this number, eighteen species are those that have been previously hnown from other parts of the world, while the rest (fifty-six) were described as new. From among the latter must be deducted the two, viz., Eunice congesta Marenz. and Glycera decipiens Marenz., which in my opinion are indubitably synonymous with the older species E. indica Kinberg and G. goesi Mgr. respectively and which therefore have to be added among the former.
Mv own researches have revealed fifty more species not recorded before from Japan. Of these thirty-two seem to be new to science.
Aphrodita watasei Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Coelobranchus Izuka, 1912 accepted as Iphitime Marenzeller, 1902 (original description)
Coelobranchus papillosus Izuka, 1912 accepted as Iphitime doederleini Marenzeller, 1902 (original description)
Eunice flavopicta Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Euphrosyne magnoculata Izuka, 1912 accepted as Euphrosine foliosa Audouin & H Milne Edwards, 1833 (original description)
Euphrosyne superba Marenzeller, 1879 accepted as Euphrosine superba Marenzeller, 1879 (additional source)
Glycera chirori Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Glycera hasidatensis Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Glycera misakiensis Izuka, 1912 accepted as Glycera pacifica Kinberg, 1866 (original description)
Glycera onomichiensis Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Goniada japonica Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Harmothoe holothuricola Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Harmothoe sinagawaensis Izuka, 1912 accepted as Arctonoella sinagawaensis (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Harmothoe yendoi Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Hemipodus yenourensis Izuka, 1912 accepted as Hemipodia yenourensis (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Iphione hirotai Izuka, 1912 accepted as Iphione ovata Kinberg, 1856 (original description)
Leanira areolata McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Neoleanira areolata (McIntosh, 1885) (source of synonymy)
Leanira japonica McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Sthenolepis japonica (McIntosh, 1885) (source of synonymy)
Nereis dyamusi Izuka, 1912 accepted as Alitta dyamusi (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Nereis ezoensis Izuka, 1912 accepted as Nereis vexillosa Grube, 1851 (original description)
Nereis ijimai Izuka, 1912 accepted as Nectoneanthes oxypoda (Marenzeller, 1879) (original description)
Nereis japonica Izuka, 1908 accepted as Hediste japonica (Izuka, 1908) (additional source)
Nereis oxypoda Marenzeller, 1879 accepted as Nectoneanthes oxypoda (Marenzeller, 1879) (basis of record)
Nereis shishidoi Izuka, 1912 accepted as Cheilonereis cyclurus (Harrington, 1897) (original description)
Notophyllum sagamianum Izuka, 1912 (original description)
Notopygos mitsukurii Izuka, 1910 (additional source)
Onuphis willemoesii (McIntosh, 1885) accepted as Protodiopatra willemoesii (McIntosh, 1885) (new combination reference)
Panthalis jogasimae Izuka, 1912 accepted as Acoetes jogasimae (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Polynoe clava Izuka, 1912 accepted as Lepidonotus sagamianus (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Polynoe ijimai Izuka, 1912 accepted as Lepidonotus helotypus (Grube, 1877) (original description)
Polynoe longissima Izuka, 1912 accepted as Lepidasthenia izukai Imajima & Hartman, 1964 (original description)
Polynoe microsetosa Izuka, 1912 accepted as Showapolynoe microsetosa (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Polynoe sagamiana Izuka, 1912 accepted as Lepidonotus sagamianus (Izuka, 1912) (original description)
Scalisetosus pacificus Izuka, 1912 accepted as Paradyte levis (Marenzeller, 1902) (original description)
Sthenolepis areolata (McIntosh, 1885) accepted as Neoleanira areolata (McIntosh, 1885) (new combination reference)
Sthenolepis japonica (McIntosh, 1885) (additional source)
Syntype UMUTZ UMUTZ-Ann-Pc-50, geounit Sagami Bay, identified as Coelobranchus papillosus Izuka, 1912
The authorship of the genus was considered to be "Grube & Ørsted in Grube" by Salazar-Vallejo & Eibye-Jacobsen ... [details]
Izuka (1912) placed Coelobranchus in Eunicidae, in which also at the time he included Dorvilleidae genera and other ... [details]
The specific epithet speciosa is the feminine form of the Latin adjective speciosus, meaning 'beautiful' or ... [details]
Not stated but named Coelobranchus possibly because the branchiae are hollow with an internal connection to the ... [details]
The species is named in honour of Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri (b. Edo, Japan, 15 January 1857 - d. 16 September 1901), ... [details]
"“This species was found creeping on the gills of Macrocheira kaempferi De Haan brought up from a depth of ... [details]
Pacific Ocean, Japan, "In a tide- pool near Misaki in Prov. Sagami, August 17th, 1906" (Izuka, 1912: 184) ... [details]
Namerikawa, Sea of Japan, ~36°46'N 137°20'W [details]
Sagami Bay, Japan, commensal on deep-sea Majoidea crab Macrocheira kaempferi [details]
Inanze Bank, off Naha, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 26.3º, 127.6º). [details]