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Euphione McIntosh, 1885 
AphiaID: 236733

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Euphione elisabethae McIntosh, 1885 (type by monotypy)
Parent Polynoidae Malmgren, 1867
Synonymised
taxa		  Physalidonotus Ehlers, 1904 (subjective synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

from synonym: Clarke, A.; Johnston, N.M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 41: 47-114 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Seidler, Hans J. 1922. Ueber die Untergattung Euphione. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 54: 301-303. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Euphione branchifera (Moore, 1903)
Species Euphione chitoniformis (Moore, 1903)
Species Euphione elisabethae McIntosh, 1885
Species Euphione ornata Knox, 1960
Species Euphione squamosa (Quatrefages, 1866)
Species Euphione tenuisetosa Gravier, 1901

Species Euphione suluensis (Horst, 1917) accepted as Lepidonotus suluensis Horst, 1917
Species Euphione tenuisetosa Gravier, 1902 accepted as Lepidonotus tenuisetosus (Gravier, 1902)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Note  Diagnosis: 12 elytral pairs, elytrophores with branchiae, notochaetae capillary (fide Fauchald, 1977). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236733
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-01-24 08:43:46Z  created  Barnich, Ruth
2007-02-01 10:44:13Z  changed  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-05 09:00:37Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-03-18 20:53:40Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Euphione McIntosh, 1885. 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=236733 on 2013-05-23
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