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Polyodontes melanonotus (Grube, 1876) 
AphiaID: 209674

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Acoetidae (Family) > Polyodontes (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (objective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Acoetes melanonota (Grube, 1876)
Rank Species
Parent Polyodontes Renieri in Blainville, 1828
Sources  basis of record: Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [details]

basis of record: Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]

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

source of synonymy: Pettibone, M.H. (1989). Revision of the aphroditoid polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (= Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers, 1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 464: 1-138. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
Note  Distribution: Distribution : Philippine Islands, Malay Archipelago Indian Ocean, Ceylon, Madagascar and Jamaica (Fauvel,1953). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209674
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-08-01 14:41:42Z  created  Vermaercke, Sigrid
2000-09-05 11:28:13Z  changed  Govaerts, Ann
2007-01-24 08:43:46Z  changed  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2011-12-29 22:53:57Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Polyodontes melanonotus (Grube, 1876). 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=209674 on 2013-06-19
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