Molpadia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Echinodermata
- Class
- Holothuroidea
- Order
- Molpadida
- Family
- Molpadiidae
- Genus
- Molpadia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Molpadia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Molpadia
In Greek mythology, Molpadia (Ancient Greek: Μολπαδία means 'divine song') may refer to the two different women:
- Molpadia, an Amazon who was said to have fought for both Antiope and Orithyia. She was a participant in the Attic War, where she witnessed her queen Antiope sustain heavy injuries. Antiope was hurt so seriously that she could not defend herself from Theseus and his retainers. Knowing this, Molpadia killed the queen with an arrow (some say spear), saving her from violation by the Athenian king. Other sources, however, state that she killed Antiope by accident. She was afterwards killed by Theseus, and her tomb was shown at Athens. Like many other Amazons, she may have been named for a goddess, in this case a psychopomp deity. Her name means "Death Song".
- Molpadia, daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, sister of Parthenos and Rhoeo, alternatively called Hemithea. According to Otto Gruppe, Molpadia may have come from Boeotia.
Molpadia in languages:
- Japanese
- イモナマコ属
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Molpadia abyssicola
- Molpadia acuta
- Molpadia africana
- Molpadia agassizii
- Molpadia amorpha
- Molpadia andamanensis
- Molpadia angulata
- Molpadia antarctica
- Molpadia arctica
- Molpadia barbouri
- Molpadia blakei
- Molpadia borealis
- Molpadia brevicaudata
- Molpadia capensis
- Molpadia changi
- Molpadia clarki
- Molpadia concolor
- Molpadia contorta
- Molpadia cubana
- Molpadia diomediae
- Molpadia discors
- Molpadia dispar
- Molpadia dissimilis
- Molpadia ecalcarea
- Molpadia elongata
- Molpadia eltaninae
- Molpadia gephyra
- Molpadia granulata
- Molpadia guangdongensis
- Molpadia hirta
- Molpadia hispida
- Molpadia holothurioides
- Molpadia infesta
- Molpadia inflata
- Molpadia intermedia
- Molpadia lenticula
- Molpadia liska
- Molpadia magdae
- Molpadia maroccana
- Molpadia millardae
- Molpadia musculus
- Molpadia niasica
- Molpadia oolitica
- Molpadia orientalis
- Molpadia parva
- Molpadia parvacauda
- Molpadia parvulum
- Molpadia paupera
- Molpadia perforata
- Molpadia polymorpha
- Molpadia roretzii
- Molpadia scabra
- Molpadia spinosa
- Molpadia triforia
- Molpadia turgida
- Molpadia undulata


