Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > 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, 1866	accepted genus name
*Amphiro*	Kinberg, 1865	generic 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. Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper. 23: 1-628.
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.
source of synonymy	Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878.
status source	Glasby, Chris J.; Hutchings, Patricia 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(1): 29–45.

Genbank

Citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Marphysa simplex (Langerhans, 1884). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341269