Genus Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865

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• Marphysa Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [331].

  Type species:

   Nereis sanguinea Montagu, 1815 by original designation.
• Amphiro Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 21(10): 559-574 [565].
• Nauphanta Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 21(10): 559-574 [564].

  Type species:

   Nauphanta novaehollandiae Kinberg, 1865 by original designation.
• Nausicaa Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 21(10): 559-574 [565].
• Macduffia McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 12: 1-554 [303].
• Amphelothrix Chamberlin, R.V. 1919. Albatross Polychaeta (Rep. Sci. Res. Exp. Albatross). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 48: 1-514 [495].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1-628 [320] (lists Amphiro as a junior synonom of Marphysa [presumably Marphysa is the more senior name])
• Zanol, J., Halanych, K.M. & Fauchald, K. 2014. Reconciling taxonomy and phylogeny in the bristleworm family Eunicidae (polychaete, Annelida). Zoologica Scripta 43(1): 79-100 [93]

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

EUNICIDAE: Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1815) — Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T. 2011. Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (undescribed species referred to as Marphysa sanguinea by [20])

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mozambique
• Senegal
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
• Hawaii
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • California
  • North Carolina

Neotropical Region

• Chile
• Falkland Islands
• Mexico
• Peru

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan
• United Kingdom
  • Scotland

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	ANNELIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
20-Jul-2023	EUNICIDA	03-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	EUNICIDAE	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	EUNICIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
04-Apr-2017	Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
17-Oct-2023	EUNICIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED