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Brania wellfleetensis Pettibone, 1956 
AphiaID: 157288

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Syllidae (Family) > Exogoninae (Subfamily) > Brania (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Brania Quatrefages, 1866
Sources  original description: Pettibone, Marian H. 1956. Some polychaete worms of the families Hesionidae, Syllidae and Nereidae from the east coast of North America, West Indies, and Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 46(9): 281-294. [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Uebelacker and Johnson (eds.), 1984 [details]

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

additional source: Fauchald, K., A. Granados-Barba, and V. Solís-Weiss. 2009. Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to Florida [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, Wellfleet, Massachusetts [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157288
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-03-29 10:21:37Z  checked  Musco, Luigi
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Musco, L. (2013). Brania wellfleetensis Pettibone, 1956. 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=157288 on 2013-06-20
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