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Nereis costae Grube, 1840 
AphiaID: 209772

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Nereis (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ceratonereis costae (Grube, 1840) represented as Ceratonereis (Composetia) costae (Grube, 1840)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Composetia Hartmann-Schröder, 1985
Parent Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Grube, A.E. 1840. Actinien, Echinodermen und Würmer des Adriatischen- und Mittelmeers, nach eigenen Sammlungen beschrieben. 1-92. J.H. Bon. Königsberg., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10133 [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. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp. [details]

source of synonymy: Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1985. Revision der Gattung Ceratonereis Kinberg (Nereididae, Polychaeta) (Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Arten mit enigeschnittenem Prostomium). Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut, 82: 37-59. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Red Sea [details]
Notes  Distribution: Distribution: Australia, Philippine Islands, Indo-China,Malay Archipelago, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Atlantic Ocean(Fauvel,1953). [details]

Remark: The subgenus is Ceratonereis according to Fauvel. [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209772
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-09-02 11:43:23Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-05 11:28:13Z  changed  Govaerts, Ann
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). Nereis costae Grube, 1840. 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=209772 on 2013-05-24
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