WoRMS name details

Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001

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

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Annelida (Phylum)
  4. Polychaeta (Class)
  5. Errantia (Subclass)
  6. Phyllodocida (Order)
  7. Aphroditiformia (Suborder)
  8. Polynoidae (Family)
  9. Polynoinae (Subfamily)
  10. Neopolynoe (Genus)
  11. Neopolynoe africana (Species)
 unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Kirkegaard, Jørgen Bagger. (2001). Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of <i>Neopolynoe</i> (Polynoidae). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 81(3): 391-397., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315401004003
page(s): 392, figure 1A-E [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
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.) (2025). 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 2025-05-03
Date
action
by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2019-02-25 23:51:04Z
changed
Wilson, Robin
2019-12-18 00:54:45Z
changed
Wilson, Robin

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Nomenclature

original description Kirkegaard, Jørgen Bagger. (2001). Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of <i>Neopolynoe</i> (Polynoidae). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 81(3): 391-397., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315401004003
page(s): 392, figure 1A-E [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

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]

Other

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]

 
 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]

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