WoRMS name details

Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001

329519  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329519)

 unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kirkegaard, J. B. 2001. Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of <i>Neopolynoe</i> (Polynoidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81(3): 391-397.
page(s): 392, figure 1 [details]   
Type locality contained in Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Canary Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note East of Canary Islands, North east Atlantic,...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality East of Canary Islands, North east Atlantic, at 1610 m. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329519 on 2024-06-03
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2019-02-25 23:51:04Z
changed
2019-12-18 00:54:45Z
changed

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original description Kirkegaard, J. B. 2001. Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of <i>Neopolynoe</i> (Polynoidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81(3): 391-397.
page(s): 392, figure 1 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System.  [details]   

additional source Bock, Gordon, Fiege, Dieter & Barnich, Ruth 2010. Revision of Hermadion Kinberg, 1856, with a redescription of Hermadion magalhaensi Kinberg, 1856, Adyte hyalina (G.O. Sars, 1873) n. comb. and Neopolynoe acanellae (Verrill, 1881) n. comb. (Polychaeta:Polynoidae). Zootaxa, 2554, 45–61. , available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2010/2554.html
page(s): 56-58 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

source of synonymy Taboada, Sergi; Silva, Ana Serra; Neal, Lenka; Cristobo, Javier; Ríos, Pilar; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Hestetun, Jon Thomassen; Koutsouveli, Vasiliki; Sherlock, Emma; Riesgo, Ana. (2020). Insights into the symbiotic relationship between scale worms and carnivorous sponges (Cladorhizidae, Chondrocladia). <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 156: 103191: 1-14., available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063719303371
page(s): 6-9, figures 2-4, 6, table 3 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Habitat Neopolynoe africana was found living in transparent tubes on the surface of a Chondrocladia sp. sponge. Elytra reportedly strongly luminesce.  [details]

Type locality East of Canary Islands, North east Atlantic, at 1610 m. [details]