WoRMS taxon details
Lepidonotus purpureus Potts, 1910
AphiaID: 209665
AphiaID: 209665
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Lepidonotinae (Subfamily) > Lepidonotus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Lepidonotus Leach, 1816 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Potts, F.A. 1910. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Pt. 2. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Ser. 2, 16: 325-353. [details] 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] additional source: Glasby, C.; Read, G. (2009). Polychaeta, Myzostomida. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] source of synonymy: Knox, G. A. 1960. Biological Results of the Chatham Islands 1954 Expedition. Part 3. Polychaeta errantia. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin, 139(3): 77-143. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details] Type locality: Indian Ocean, Zanzibar [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209665 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Lepidonotus purpureus Potts, 1910. 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=209665 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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