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Malmgreniella marphysae (McIntosh, 1876)

Harmothoe marphysae McIntosh, 1876a:384, pl. 69: figs. 11–15; pl. 70: fig. 18; 1900:339, pl. 27: fig. 11; pl. 29: fig. 15; pl. 32: fig. 13; pl. 39: figs. 7–11.—Malaquin, 1890:283.—Orton, 1923:861.—Plymouth Marine Fauna, 1957:112.—Tebble and Chambers, 1982:43, figs. 13d,e, 40, 41a,b.

Harmothoe marphysae var. watsoni McIntosh, 1919:163; 1923:521, pl. 137: figs. 1, 1a, 1b.—Fauvel, 1927:406. [New synonymy.]

Harmothoe lunulata var. marphysae.—Fauvel, 1923:72, fig. 26i.—Bellan, 1962:89.

Harmothoe lunulata.—Pettibone, 1953:25 [part; not Delle Chiaje, 1830].

MATERIAL EXAMINED.—NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN: Channel Islands: English Channel, Guernsey, Jul, in galleries of M. sanguinea, lectotype (BMNH 1921.5.1.443). England: Plymouth Sound, in galleries of M. sanguinea (Montagu), rock crevices: off Mount Edgcume, 14 Apr 1961, G.M. Spooner, collector, 4 specimens (LCHP–S-10; USNM 55064); West Lose, 20 Mar 1969, P.E. Gibbs, collector, 1 specimen (LCHP–G-7). North Wales: In tube of Lagis koreni Maslmgren, Arnold Watson, collector, holotype of Harmothoe marphysae var. watsoni (BMNH 1921.5.1.485).

DISTRIBUTION.—Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Irish Sea, English Channel to Northwest France.

Malmgreniella mcintoshi (Tebble and Chambers, 1982), new combination

Lagisca Jeffreysii McIntosh, 1900:305, pl. 27: fig. 10; pl. 32: fig. 7; pl. 38: figs. 7–9; pl. 42: fig. 30 [primary homonym; not Lagisca jeffreysi McIntosh, 1876b].

Harmothoe haliaeti.—Fauvel, 1914:57, pl. 3: fig. 17; 1923:57, fig. 19f–h. [Not McIntosh, 1876b.]

Harmothoe jeffreysi.—Ditlevsen, 1917:9 [not McIntosh, 1876b].

Malmgrenia jeffreysi.—Augener, 1925:108, figs. 1, la [not McIntosh, 1876b].

Harmothoe mcintoshi Tebble and Chambers, 1982:53, figs. 17a,b, 50.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.—NORTHEASTERN ATLANTIC OCEAN: Shetland Islands: 9 mi off Balta, 110 m, G. Jeffreys, collector, 1868, holotype of Lagisca Jeffreysii McIntosh, 1900 (BMNH 1921.5.1.310). Sweden: Gunnarskar, Kristineberg Zoological Station, 20 m, shelly sand, A. Eliason, collector, 13 May 1965, 1 specimen (USNM 43230, as Harmothoe haliaeti by Eliason). Ireland: Galway, 1 specimen (BMNH 1921.5.1.288, mixed with Lagisca floccosa by McIntosh).
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Pettibone, Marian H. 1993. "Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-92. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.538