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Lepidasthenia elegans (Grube, 1840) 
AphiaID: 130796

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Lepidastheniinae (Subfamily) > Lepidasthenia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Lepidasthenia affinis Horst, 1917 (subjective synonym)
Polynoe blainvillei Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834 (subjective synonym)
Polynoe elegans Grube, 1840 (synonym)
Polynoe lamprophthalma Marenzeller, 1874 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1941. Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. 23. Polychaetous annelids from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Zoologica, New York, 26: 17-24. [details]

basis of record: Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345 [details]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. 1934. Annélides polychètes de Rovigno d'Istria. Thalassia, 1(7): 1-78. [details]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. 1923. Polychètes errantes. Faune de France Volume 5. 1-488. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/  [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]

basis of record: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details]

additional source: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

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

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1956. Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 109(2): 239-310. [details]

from synonym: Grube, A.E. 1840. Actinien, Echinodermen und Würmer des Adriatischen- und Mittelmeers, nach eigenen Sammlungen beschrieben. 1-92. J.H. Bon. Königsberg., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10133 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Horst, R. 1917. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 2. Aphroditidae and Chrysopetalidae. Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900, 24b: 1-140. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. 1834. Recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle du littoral de la France, ou Recueil de mémoires sur l'anatomie, la physiologie, la classification et les moeurs des animaux de nos côtes; ouvrage accompagné de planches faites d'après nature. Paris, Crochard., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/43796 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Marenzeller, Emil von 1874. Zur Kenntnis der adriatischen Anneliden. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 69(1): 1-76, 7 plates, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12671902  [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130796
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2007-01-23 08:53:40Z  checked  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Lepidasthenia elegans (Grube, 1840). 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=130796 on 2013-05-19
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