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Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977 
AphiaID: 129418

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Orbiniidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942
Sources  original description: Day, J.H. 1977. A review of the Australian and New Zealand Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). 217-246. IN: Reish, D.J. and Fauchald, K. (Ed.). Essays on Polychaetous annelids in memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. The Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California.
page(s): 218 [details]


basis of record: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Glasby, C.; Read, G. (2009). Polychaeta, Myzostomida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

redescription: Mackie, Andrew S. Y. 1987. A review of species currently assigned to the genus Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977 (Polychaeta: Orbiniidae), with descriptions of species newly referred to Scoloplos Blainville, 1828. Sarsia, 72: 1-28. [details]

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 Species Leitoscoloplos banzareae Mackie, 1987
Species Leitoscoloplos bilobatus Mackie, 1987
Species Leitoscoloplos foliosus (Hartman, 1951)
Species Leitoscoloplos fragilis (Verrill, 1873)
Species Leitoscoloplos geminus Mackie, 1987
Species Leitoscoloplos kerguelensis (McIntosh, 1885) sensu Ramos, 1976
Species Leitoscoloplos latibranchis Day, 1977
Species Leitoscoloplos mackiei Eibye-Jacobsen, 2002
Species Leitoscoloplos mammosus Mackie, 1987
Species Leitoscoloplos mawsoni Benham, 1921
Species Leitoscoloplos normalis Day, 1977
Species Leitoscoloplos obovatus Mackie, 1987
Species Leitoscoloplos pachybranchiatus Blake & Hillbig, 1990
Species Leitoscoloplos papillatus Eibye-Jacobsen, 2002
Species Leitoscoloplos pugettensis
Species Leitoscoloplos robustus (Verrill, 1873)

Species Leitoscoloplos acutus (Verrill, 1873) accepted as Scoloplos acutus (Verrill, 1873)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Kongsfjord [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129418
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129418 on 2013-05-21
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