Deep-Sea taxon details
Amythas membranifera Benham, 1921
172864 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172864)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Benham, William Blaxland. (1921). Polychaeta. <em>Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914, Scientific Reports, Series C - Zoology and Botany.</em> 6(3): 1-128, plates 5-10, 1 map., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.16201
page(s): 102-105, plate 10 figs. 124-132 [details]
page(s): 102-105, plate 10 figs. 124-132 [details]
Holotype AM W.728, geounit Antarctica
, Type locality contained in Southern Ocean , Note Commonwealth Bay, RV Aurora summer cruise...
Holotype AM W.728, geounit Antarctica [details]
type locality contained in Southern Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Commonwealth Bay, RV Aurora summer cruise 1913-14, station 10, -65.3333, 96.2167, 594 m (325 fathoms), Antarctic Ocean [details]
Etymology Not stated. Amythas membranifera is evidently named with a compound name 'membranifera' referring to a folded 'tentacular'...
Etymology Not stated. Amythas membranifera is evidently named with a compound name 'membranifera' referring to a folded 'tentacular' membrane in the oral cavity, with -fera the feminine form of -fer, -a, -um, meaning to carry. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Amythas membranifera Benham, 1921. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172864 on 2025-04-02
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Amythas membranifera Benham, 1921. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=172864 on 2025-04-02
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Benham, William Blaxland. (1921). Polychaeta. <em>Australian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914, Scientific Reports, Series C - Zoology and Botany.</em> 6(3): 1-128, plates 5-10, 1 map., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.16201
page(s): 102-105, plate 10 figs. 124-132 [details]
taxonomy source Carrerette, Orlemir; Petti, Monica A. V.; Kim, Dong-U.; Bromberg, Sandra; Bergamo, Gilberto; Sumida, Paulo Y. G.; Ahn, In-Young;. (2023). Historical review and contribution to the knowledge of Amythas membranifera (Ampharetidae): an integrative perspective of an Antarctic polychaete. <em>Polar Biology.</em> 46(12): 1287-1305., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-023-03202-z
page(s): 1292, figures 4-9; note: description of specimens from Marian Cove, Maxwell Bay, King George Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Holotype specimen not examined. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
redescription Schiaparelli, Stefano; Jirkov, Igor A. (2021). Contribution to the taxonomic knowledge of Ampharetidae (Annelida) from Antarctica with the description of Amage giacomobovei sp. nov. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 733(1): 125–145., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1227
page(s): 135, figures 4, 5A–E, J–L; note: description and figures, for new records from Terra Nova Bay [details] Available for editors
page(s): 102-105, plate 10 figs. 124-132 [details]
taxonomy source Carrerette, Orlemir; Petti, Monica A. V.; Kim, Dong-U.; Bromberg, Sandra; Bergamo, Gilberto; Sumida, Paulo Y. G.; Ahn, In-Young;. (2023). Historical review and contribution to the knowledge of Amythas membranifera (Ampharetidae): an integrative perspective of an Antarctic polychaete. <em>Polar Biology.</em> 46(12): 1287-1305., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-023-03202-z
page(s): 1292, figures 4-9; note: description of specimens from Marian Cove, Maxwell Bay, King George Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula. Holotype specimen not examined. [details]
context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
redescription Schiaparelli, Stefano; Jirkov, Igor A. (2021). Contribution to the taxonomic knowledge of Ampharetidae (Annelida) from Antarctica with the description of Amage giacomobovei sp. nov. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 733(1): 125–145., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1227
page(s): 135, figures 4, 5A–E, J–L; note: description and figures, for new records from Terra Nova Bay [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM W.728, geounit Antarctica [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Amythas membranifera is evidently named with a compound name 'membranifera' referring to a folded 'tentacular' membrane in the oral cavity, with -fera the feminine form of -fer, -a, -um, meaning to carry. [details]Type locality Commonwealth Bay, RV Aurora summer cruise 1913-14, station 10, -65.3333, 96.2167, 594 m (325 fathoms), Antarctic Ocean [details]
Type specimen Benham (1921) did not designate types. Neither Schiaparelli & Jirkov (2021) nor Carrerette et al (2023) comment on the whereabouts of the holotype (and only specimen examined by Benham) of Amythas membranifera. These later authors describe material collected from distant locations to the type locality of Commonwealth Bay. However, the holotype of Amythas membranifera is at the Australian Museum as registration W.728. https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/221d2b96-d852-4a7f-aa17-6551dd506226 record id: 221d2b96-d852-4a7f-aa17-6551dd506226 [details]
