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Eunice gracilis Moore, 1903 
AphiaID: 209820

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Eunice (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
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 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Eunice kobiensis McIntosh, 1885
Rank Species
Parent Eunice Cuvier, 1817
Sources  original description: Moore, J.P. 1903. Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 55: 401-490. [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: Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 523: 1-422. [details]

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Subspecies Eunice gracilis antennata Grube, 1867 accepted as Eunice antennata (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Red Sea [details]
Tanzania [details]
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
Notes  Distribution: Distribution: AustraliaIndo-China, Indian Ocean, Mergui, Gulf of Mannar and Zanzibar(Fauvel,1953). [details]

RemarkNicidon is a subgenus according to Fauvel,1953. [details]

Specimen: Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, Totomi Sea, Japan [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209820
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Date   action   by
2000-08-02 10:59:24Z  created  Vermaercke, Sigrid
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Eunice gracilis Moore, 1903. 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=209820 on 2013-05-25
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