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Branchiosyllis oculata Ehlers, 1887 
AphiaID: 231877

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Syllidae (Family) > Syllinae (Subfamily) > Branchiosyllis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Branchiosyllis Ehlers, 1887
Synonymised
taxa
  Branchiosyllis lamellifera Verrill, 1900 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Ehlers, E. 1887. Report on the annelids of the dredging expedition of the U.S. coast survey steamer Blake. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 15: VIand335pp. [details]

basis of record: Hartman, O. 1942. A review of the types of polychaetous annelids at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, Yale University, 8(1): 1-98. [details]

basis of record: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source: Fauchald, K., A. Granados-Barba, and V. Solís-Weiss. 2009. Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mexico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Note  Type locality: Caribbean Sea, Florida Keys [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231877
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-07-13 10:07:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
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). Branchiosyllis oculata Ehlers, 1887. 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=231877 on 2013-05-20
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