WoRMS taxon details
Eunice afra punctata Peters, 1854
AphiaID: 224016
AphiaID: 224016
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Eunice (Genus) > Eunice afra (Species) |
| Status |  unaccepted (superseded as subspecies, renamed homonym as full species) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Eunice petersi Fauchald, 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Subspecies | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Eunice afra Peters, 1854 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Source |
taxonomy source: Day, J.H. 1957. The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. Annals of the Natal Museum, 14(1): 59-129. page(s): 89 [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mozambique [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details] Taxonomy: Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new name, E. petersi, as it is a junior secondary homonym to E. punctata (Risso), and treated it as valid at species rank. [details] Type locality: Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224016 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Eunice afra punctata 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=224016 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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