WoRMS taxon details
Eunice afra Peters, 1854
AphiaID: 209828
AphiaID: 209828
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Eunice (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Eunice Cuvier, 1817 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Peters, Wilhelm C. H. 1854. Über die Gattung Bdella, Savigny, (Limnatis, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 607-614
, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511 page(s): 611 [details] [full text] basis of record: Fishelson, L., 1971. Ecology and distribution of the benthic fauna in the shallow waters of the Red Sea. Marine Biology, 10/2: 113-133. [details] [full text] 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] source of synonymy: Fauvel, P. 1930. [Untitled]. In: Pruvot, G.: Annélides Polychètes de Nouvelle-Caledonie recueillies par M. Francois, avec une introduction et des notes de Pierre Fauvel. Archives de zoologie expérimentale et générale, 70: 1-94. [details] source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1956. Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 109(2): 239-310. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Eunice afra afra Peters, 1855 Subspecies Eunice afra paupera Grube Subspecies Eunice afra punctata Peters, 1854 accepted as Eunice petersi Fauchald, 1992 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Madagascar [details] Panama [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: distribution:Pacific Ocean, Philippine Islands , Malaya Seas, Indian Ocean, Zanzibar, Madagascar, Red Sea(Fauvel, 1953). [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Type locality: Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209828 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Eunice afra Peters, 1854. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=209828 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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