WoRMS taxon details
Sthenelais variabilis Potts, 1910
AphiaID: 220414
AphiaID: 220414
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Sigalionidae (Family) > Sthenelais (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (synonym in part) | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Fimbriosthenelais longipinnis (Grube, 1870) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Sthenelais Kinberg, 1856 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Potts, F.A. 1910. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Pt. 2. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Ser. 2, 16: 325-353. [details] basis of record: Fauvel, P. (1953). The fauna of India including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya : Annelida, Polychaeta. The Indian Press, Ltd, Allahabad. xii and 507 p., available online at http://archive.org/details/FBIPolychaeta [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] source of synonymy: Pettibone, M.H. (1971). Partial revision of the genus Sthenelais Kinberg (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae) with diagnoses of two new genera. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 109: 1-40. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Sthenelais variabilis colorata Hartman, 1939 Subspecies Sthenelais variabilis hirsuta Potts, 1910 Subspecies Sthenelais variabilis colorata Monro, 1924 accepted as Sthenelais colorata Monro, 1924 Subspecies Sthenelais variabilis glabra Potts, 1910 accepted as Fimbriosthenelais longipinnis (Grube, 1870) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Maldive Archipelago, Zanzibar [details] Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details] Synonymy: according to Pettibone (1971) part of Sthenelais variabilis Potts, 1910 is synonym to Fimbriosthenelais longipinnis (Grube, 1870 and part is synonym to F. hirsuta (Potts, 1910). (R. Barnich) [details] Type locality: Indian Ocean, Maldive Islands and Zanzibar [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220414 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Sthenelais variabilis Potts, 1910. 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=220414 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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