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Nereis unifasciata Willey, 1905 
AphiaID: 209778

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Nereis (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (objective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Neanthes unifasciata (Willey, 1905)
Rank Species
Parent Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl.Oyster.Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV supplementary report 30: 212-324. [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]

source of synonymy: Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Mozambique [details]
Red Sea [details]
Notes  Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mannar [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209778
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-08-26 11:57:53Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-13 07:19:12Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
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 unifasciata Willey, 1905. 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=209778 on 2013-05-20
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