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Thalenessa Baird, 1868 
AphiaID: 205442

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Sigalionidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867
Sources  basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [details]

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

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Thalenessa dendrolepis (Claparède, 1868)
Species Thalenessa digitata McIntosh, 1885
Species Thalenessa edwardsi (Kinberg, 1856)
Species Thalenessa gracilis Fischli, 1903
Species Thalenessa lewisii (Berkeley & Berkeley, 1939)
Species Thalenessa spinosa (Hartman, 1939)
Species Thalenessa stylolepis Willey, 1905
Species Thalenessa vazensis (Augener, 1918)

Species Thalenessa imthurni Hornell in Herdman, 1903 (nomen dubium)

Species Thalenessa djiboutiensis Gravier, 1902 accepted as Euthalenessa digitata (McIntosh, 1885)
Species Thalenessa fimbriata McIntosh, 1885 accepted as Thalenessa digitata McIntosh, 1885
Species Thalenessa microceros Haswell, 1883 accepted as Euthalenessa microceros (Haswell, 1883)
Species Thalenessa oculata (Peters, 1854) accepted as Euthalenessa oculata (Peters, 1854)
Species Thalenessa tropica Hartman, 1954 accepted as Euthalenessa festiva (Grube, 1878)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Note  Type species: Type species Sigalion edwardsi Kinberg 1855 in Fauchald, 1977 <246>. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205442
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-26 11:57:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-01-26 00:02:20Z  changed  Fondo, Esther
2007-01-22 09:31:04Z  changed  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Thalenessa Baird, 1868. 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=205442 on 2013-05-23
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