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Namalycastis indica (Southern, 1921) 
AphiaID: 209756

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Namanereidinae (Subfamily) > Namalycastis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Namalycastis Hartman, 1959
Synonymised
taxa		  Lycastis indica Southern, 1921 (objective synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Silva, P. H. D. H. 1961. Contributions to the Knowledge of the Polychaete fauna of Ceylon. Part I. Five new species, two new varieties and several new records principally from the southern coast. Spolia Zeylanica, 29(2): 164-194. [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]

from synonym: Southern, Rowland 1921. Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 5: 563-659. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Mozambique [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209756
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-26 11:57:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-07-14 15:54:19Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Namalycastis indica (Southern, 1921). 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=209756 on 2013-05-22
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