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Nereis falcaria (Willey, 1905) 
AphiaID: 130395

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Nereis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Ceratonereis falcaria Willey, 1905 (objective synonym)
Nereis kauderni Fauvel, 1921 (subjective synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Hartman, O. 1954. Australian Nereidae. Including descriptions of three new species and one genus, together with summaries of previous records and keys to species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 77: 1-41. [details]

basis of record: Knox, G. A. 1951. The polychaetous annelids of Banks Peninsula. Part I. Nereidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 5(5): 213-229. [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]

basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [details]

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

original description (from synonym): Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl.Oyster.Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV supplementary report 30: 212-324. [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Fauvel, P. 1921. Polychètes de Madagascar du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle recueillies par M. le Dr. W. Kaudern en 1912. Arkiv för Zoologi, 13(24): 1-32. [details] [view taxon]

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 Subspecies Nereis falcaria multignatha Wu, Sun & Yang, 1981
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Note  Distribution: Tropical indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130395
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). Nereis falcaria (Willey, 1905). 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=130395 on 2013-06-20
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