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Aulophorus furcatus (Müller, 1774)

Aulophorus furcatus (habitus)
Aulophorus furcatus (habitus)

994173  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:994173)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Clitellata (Class)
  5. Oligochaeta (Subclass)
  6. Tubificida (Order)
  7. Tubificina (Suborder)
  8. Naididae (Family)
  9. Naidinae (Subfamily)
  10. Aulophorus (Genus)
  11. Aulophorus furcatus (Species)
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Species
Aulophorus palmetris Michaelsen, 1905 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling (unintentional mistype )
Dero (Aulophorus) furcata (Müller, 1774) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Dero (Aulophorus) furcatus (Müller, 1774) · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet

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(of Nais furcata Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 23; note: considered by Muller as a synonym of Nais digitata [details] OpenAccess publication
Taxonomic remark In Sperber (1950) this species is listed as Aulophorus furcatus (in her key on p50.) as well as Dero (Aulophorus) furcatus...  
Taxonomic remark In Sperber (1950) this species is listed as Aulophorus furcatus (in her key on p50.) as well as Dero (Aulophorus) furcatus (in her species description on p72-73). As a result of this inconsistancy, the species is reported in more recent literature as either Dero furcata or Aulophorus furcatus.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Timm (2007) denies the paternity of Aulophorus furcatus to Müller (1773) on the pretext that this species cannot be found...  
Taxonomic remark Timm (2007) denies the paternity of Aulophorus furcatus to Müller (1773) on the pretext that this species cannot be found in Müller's book referred to in Sperber (1948), i.e. Müller (1773: 23). In fact, Müller's book is in two volumes ("Voluminis primi" and "Voluminis alterum"). The first volume consists of two parts, "Pars prima", published in 1773, and "Pars Altera", published in 1774. This subtlety may go unnoticed if one does not take the care to go through the whole work. It is probably for this reason that a confusion was created by Sperber (1948) when she attributed many original combinations of Naidinae species to Müller (1773) instead of 1774. The reference to Aulophorus furcatus is made in the second part of the first volume. Müller (1774: 23) makes an explicit reference to Rösel (1755), who was the first to describe this species under the name "Das geschmeidige Wasserschlänglien mit zwey Gablspitzen": "... et in furcata Roes. ins. 3. t. 93. f. 8-16. oculi desint, digitatam potius dico". Interestingly, however, although Müller attributes a Latin name to the species reported by Rösel, he seems to put it directly in synonymy with "Nais digitata".
Later, Timm (pers. comm.) admitted that he was not able to consult all Müller's volumes (1773 and 1774). [details]
WoRMS (2025). Aulophorus furcatus (Müller, 1774). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=994173 on 2025-05-06
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Nomenclature

original description (of Aulophorus palustris Michaelsen, 1905) Michaelsen, W. (1905). Die Oligochäten Deutsch-Ostafrikas. <em>Z. wiss. Zool.</em> 82(1): 288-367.
page(s): 308 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Aulophorus stephensoni Michaelsen, 1912) Michaelsen, W. (1912). Über einige zentralamerikanische Oligochäten. <em>Arch. Naturg.</em> 78(9): 112-129., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13317184
page(s): 116; note: nom.nov. pro Dero sp. Stephenson (1909). Studies on the aquatic oligochaeta of the Punjab, Manchester, 1909, p21 and - (1910) in rec. Indian Museum V, p71 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Dero palpigera Grebnitzky, 1873) Grebnitzky, N.A. (1873). Materialy dlya fauna Novorossiskogo kraya. Karzinoloiseskiya zamyetki [Materials for the fauna of the Novorossiysk region. Carcinological notes]. <em>Zapiski Noborosuyskago Obshchestva Estyestvoispytatyelyey (Odessa).</em> 2(2): 230-272, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 268 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Aulophorus furcatus var. brevipalpis Golanski, 1911) Golanski, J. (1911). Przyezynck do znajomosei fauny Skaposzezetow wodnych (Oligochaeta limicola) Galieyi. <em>In: Ksiega pamigtkowa [Denkschrift] Profesora Dr. Josefa Nusbauma, Lwow.</em> p. 56-91.
page(s): 82 [details] 

original description (of Aulophorus furcatus var. brevipalpis Golanski, 1911) Golanski, J. (1911). Tymezasowe wyniki badan nad fauna Skaposzcetow wodnych (Oligochaeta limicola) Galieyi. [Vorläufige Mittteilungen über süßwasserbewohnende Borstenwürmer (Oligochaeta limicola) Galiziens.]. <em>Kosmos.</em> 35: 198—205 [In polnischer Sprache mit sehr kurzem Auszug in deutscher Sprache].
page(s): 200 [details] 

original description (of Aulophorus palmetris Michaelsen, 1905) Michaelsen, W. (1905). Die Oligochäten Deutsch-Ostafrikas. <em>Z. wiss. Zool.</em> 82(1): 288-367. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Dero roseola Nicholls, 1921) Nicholls, G.E. (1921). On a new species of naidiform worm, Dero roseola. <em>Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.</em> 7: 90-93 + Plate XIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48628640
page(s): 93 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nais furcata Müller, 1774) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol1 [part 2] 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774] ; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 23; note: considered by Muller as a synonym of Nais digitata [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Dero rodriguezii Semper, 1877) Semper, C. (1877). Beiträge zur biologie der oligochaeten. <em>Arbeiten aus dem Zoologisch-Zootomischen Institut in Würzburg.</em> 4: 65-112.
page(s): 106 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Naidu, K. V.; Srivastava, H. N. (1980). Some fresh-water oligochaeta of Nagpur, India. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 72(3): 261-271., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00005630 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. <em>Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke.</em> 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Cernosvitov, L. (1942). Oligochaeta from Various Parts of the World. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 111: 197-236.
page(s): 201 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Al-Abbad, M.Y.M. (2012). New Records of Twelve species of Oligochaeta (Naididae and Aeolosomatidae) from the Southern Iraqi Marshes, Iraq. <em>Jordan Journal of Biological Sciences.</em> 5(2):105-111. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Modeer, A. (1798). Beskrifning af et slagte ibland maskkraken kalladt Slinga, Nais. <em>Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar.</em> 19: 107-143., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46957626
page(s): 136 [details] 

additional source Liang, Y. (1979). Studies on the aquatic Oligochaeta of China. III. Aquatic Oligochaeta of the Huama Lake. <em>Oceanol. Limnol. Sin.</em> 10: 273-281.
page(s): 275 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Grimm, R. (1987). Contributions towards the taxonomy of the African Naididae (Oligochaeta). IV. Zoogeographical and taxonomical considerations on African Naididae. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 155: 27-27.
page(s): 32 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hegde, P.R.; Sreepada, K.S. (2014). Reports on Aquatic Oligochaetes (Naididae) In Paddy Fields of Moodabidri Taluk, Dakshina Kannada, South India. <em>Journal of Entomology and Zoology studies.</em> 2(2): 101-107.
page(s): 102 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Hrabĕ, S. (1966). On some Naididae from the Volta Lake in the Ghana. <em>Publicacions de la Faculté de Sciencés Université Brno.</em> 477: 373-387.
page(s): 381 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Aiyer, K.S.P. (1929). An account of the Oligochaeta of Travancore. <em>Records of the Indian museum.</em> 31(1): 13-76. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Chen, C. (1940). Taxonomy and faunal relations of the limnitic Oligochaeta of China. <em>Contr. Biol. Lab. Sci. Soc. China, Zool.</em> 14: 1-131.
page(s): 61 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, E. (1947). Naidids and tubificids from Brazil. <em>Comun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montev.</em> 2(44): 1-20.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Marcus, E. (1943). Sôbre Naididae do Brasil. <em>Boletins da Faculdade de Philosophia, Sciencias e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. Zoologia.</em> 7(7): 3., available online at https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2526-4877.bsffclzoologia.1943.125211
page(s): 87 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Taxonomic remark In Sperber (1950) this species is listed as Aulophorus furcatus (in her key on p50.) as well as Dero (Aulophorus) furcatus (in her species description on p72-73). As a result of this inconsistancy, the species is reported in more recent literature as either Dero furcata or Aulophorus furcatus.  [details]

Taxonomic remark Timm (2007) denies the paternity of Aulophorus furcatus to Müller (1773) on the pretext that this species cannot be found in Müller's book referred to in Sperber (1948), i.e. Müller (1773: 23). In fact, Müller's book is in two volumes ("Voluminis primi" and "Voluminis alterum"). The first volume consists of two parts, "Pars prima", published in 1773, and "Pars Altera", published in 1774. This subtlety may go unnoticed if one does not take the care to go through the whole work. It is probably for this reason that a confusion was created by Sperber (1948) when she attributed many original combinations of Naidinae species to Müller (1773) instead of 1774. The reference to Aulophorus furcatus is made in the second part of the first volume. Müller (1774: 23) makes an explicit reference to Rösel (1755), who was the first to describe this species under the name "Das geschmeidige Wasserschlänglien mit zwey Gablspitzen": "... et in furcata Roes. ins. 3. t. 93. f. 8-16. oculi desint, digitatam potius dico". Interestingly, however, although Müller attributes a Latin name to the species reported by Rösel, he seems to put it directly in synonymy with "Nais digitata".
Later, Timm (pers. comm.) admitted that he was not able to consult all Müller's volumes (1773 and 1774). [details]
    Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Aulophorus furcatus) 
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Aulophorus palustris Michaelsen, 1905)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Aulophorus stephensoni Michaelsen, 1912)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Dero palpigera Grebnitzky, 1873)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Dero rodriguezii Semper, 1877)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Dero roseola Nicholls, 1921)
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Uronais furcata (Müller, 1774))
To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 9 proteins) 
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Aulophorus furcatus (habitus)
Aulophorus furcatus (habitus)