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Novaquesta trifurcata Hobson, 1970 
AphiaID: 157507

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Questidae (Family) > Novaquesta (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (objective synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Questa trifurcata (Hobson, 1970)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Novaquesta Hobson, 1970
Parent Novaquesta Hobson, 1970 accepted as Questa Hartman, 1966
Sources  original description: Hobson, Katharine D. 1970. Novaquesta trifurcata, a new genus and species of the family Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 83(17): 191-194. [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]

source of synonymy: Giere, Olav and Erséus, Christer 1998. A systematic account of the Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta), with description of new taxa. Zoologica Scripta, 27(4): 345-360, 5 figures, 3 tables. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico [details]

Specimen: Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 1150 [details]

Type locality: Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, USA, Atlantic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157507
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-23 07:30:30Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-02-07 20:48:30Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Novaquesta trifurcata Hobson, 1970. 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=157507 on 2013-05-25
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