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Glycera kerguelensis McIntosh, 1885 
AphiaID: 173369

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Glyceriformia (Suborder) > Glyceridae (Family) > Glycera (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Glycera Savigny, 1818
Sources  original description: McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger during the years 1872-76, Ser. Zoology, 12: 1-554., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-34/htm/doc.html [details]

basis of record: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS[details]

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

source of synonymy: Böggemann, Markus 2002. Revision of the Glyceridae Grube 1859 (Annelida: Polychaeta). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 555: 1-249., available online at http://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/list/series/abh_senck [details]

status source: Schüller, M. (2011). Evidence for a role of bathymetry and emergence in speciation in the genus Glycera (Glyceridae, Polychaeta) from the deep Eastern Weddell Sea. Polar Biology 34(4): 549-564. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-010-0913-x [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
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
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To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Synonymy: Böggemann (2002) synonymised the southern hemisphere G. kerguelensis with the northern hemisphere G. capitata, thus creating a global or amphipolar taxon. Schüller (2011) rejected this synonymy, finding likely cryptic species of G. kerguelensis in the Weddell Sea. [details]

Type locality: Kerguelen Islands [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:173369
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-13 08:37:11Z  created  Braeckman, Ulrike
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Glycera kerguelensis McIntosh, 1885. 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=173369 on 2013-05-25
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