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Alitta Kinberg, 1865 
AphiaID: 234848

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Nereis virens Sars, 1835 (type by monotypy)
Parent Nereidinae Blainville, 1818
Synonymised
taxa		  Nereis (Alitta) (Kinberg, 1865) (superseded as subgenus rank)
Sources  original description: Kinberg, J. G. H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm 22(2): 167-179.
page(s): 172 [details]

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

redescription: Bakken, Torkild and Wilson, Robin S. 2005. Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta, 34(5):507-547 [details]

redescription: Khlebovich, V.V. 1996. [Fauna of Russia and neighbouring countries. Polychaetous annelids. Volume III. Polychaetes of the family Nereididae of the Russian Seas and the adjacent waters]. Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, n.s. no. 140, Nauka Publishing House 222 pp.
page(s): 109 [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Alitta brandti Malmgren, 1865
Species Alitta grandis (Stimpson, 1853)
Species Alitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847)
Species Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234848
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-11-26 16:18:18Z  created  Glasby, Chris
2008-03-04 06:49:09Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2011-05-15 21:14:46Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
2011-05-16 20:49:49Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K.; Glasby, C. (2013). Alitta Kinberg, 1865. 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=234848 on 2013-06-20
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