WoRMS taxon details
Amastigos caperatus
AphiaID: 157156
AphiaID: 157156
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Capitellidae (Family) > Amastigos (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Amastigos Piltz, 1976 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Ewing, R. Michael and Dauer, Daniel M. 1981. A new species of Amastigos (Polychaeta: Capitellidae) from the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast of the United States with notes on the Capitellidae of the Chesapeake Bay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(1): 163-168. [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian [details] Specimen: Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details] Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, Cheasapeake Bay [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157156 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Amastigos caperatus. 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=157156 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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