Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Eunicida > Family Eunicidae > Genus Marphysa

Marphysa simplex (Langerhans, 1884)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Marphysa*	Quatrefages, 1865	accepted genus name
*Amphiro*	Kinberg, 1864	heterotypic synonym
*Lysibranchia*	Cantone, 1983	synonym

Species group names

*Amphiro simplex*	Langerhans, 1884	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628 pp.
additional source	Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta
source of synonymy	Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London.
source of synonymy	Fauchald, K. 1987. Redescription of the genus Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100(2): 375-380.
status source	Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings Pat, A. (2010). A new species of Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865 (Polychaeta: Eunicida: Eunicidae) from northern Australia and a review of similar taxa from the Indo-west Pacific, including the genus Nauphanta Kinberg, 1865. Zootaxa 2352: 29–45.

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Citation

Read, G. (2014). Marphysa simplex (Langerhans, 1884). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341269