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Opisthosyllis laevis Day, 1957 
AphiaID: 209746

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: Day, J.H. 1957. The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. Annals of the Natal Museum, 14(1): 59-129. [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]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Type locality: Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209746
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-08-26 11:57:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
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 laevis Day, 1957. 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=209746 on 2013-06-20
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