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Hesione genetta Grube, 1866 
AphiaID: 209727

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Hesionidae (Family) > Hesioninae (Subfamily) > Hesionini (Tribe) > Hesione (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Hesione
Sources  original description: Grube, A.E. 1866. Neue anneliden aus den Gattungen Eunice, Hesione, Lamprophaës, und Travisia. Schles.gesellschaft fur vaterlandische cultur Breslau Jahresber., 44: 64-66. [details]

basis of record: Fauvel, P. (1953). The fauna of India including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya : Annelida, Polychaeta. The Indian Press, Ltd, Allahabad. xii and 507 p., available online at http://archive.org/details/FBIPolychaeta [details]

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

source of synonymy: Day, J.H. 1962. Polychaeta from several localities in the western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 139(4): 627-656. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Distribution: also occurs in Pacific Ocean, California, Samoa, Gambier Islands, Philippine Islands, Indian Ocean and Sri Lanka (Fauvel,1953). [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, Samoa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209727
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-09-05 11:28:13Z  created  Govaerts, Ann
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Hesione genetta Grube, 1866. 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=209727 on 2013-05-22
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