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Opisthosyllis longicirrata Monro, 1939 
AphiaID: 209744

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Syllidae (Family) > Opisthosyllis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Opisthosyllis Langerhans, 1879
Sources  original description: Monro, Charles C. A. 1939. On some tropical polychaetes in the British Museum, mostly collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Zanzibar, Tahiti and the Marquesas. I. Families Amphinomidae to Phylldocidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 11, 4: 161-184. [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Red Sea [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: also occurs in Tahiti, Maldive Archipelago and Suez (Fauvel,1953). [details]

Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Type locality: Indian Ocean, Maldives; Red Sea and Tahiti [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209744
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2000-09-05 11:28:13Z  created  Govaerts, Ann
2006-07-13 10:07:35Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Opisthosyllis longicirrata Monro, 1939. 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=209744 on 2013-05-23
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