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Ampharete cirrata Webster & Benedict, 1887 
AphiaID: 159917

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Ampharetidae (Family) > Ampharetinae (Subfamily) > Ampharete (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ampharete acutifrons (Grube, 1860)
Rank Species
Parent Ampharete Malmgren, 1866
Sources  original description: Webster, Henry E. and Benedict, James E. 1887. The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 1885: 707-758. [details]

basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

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

source of synonymy: 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]

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 Cobscook Bay [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Link To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Specimen: Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy: Questionably synonym of species listed [details]

Taxonomy: Subfamily: Ampharetinae, according to Trott (2004). [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean off Maine [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159917
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Date   action   by
2005-05-30 12:28:25Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Ampharete cirrata Webster & Benedict, 1887. 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=159917 on 2013-06-20
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