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Saxipendium coronatum Woodwick & Sensenbaugh, 1985 
AphiaID: 266849

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Hemichordata (Phylum) > Enteropneusta (Class) > [unassigned] Enteropneusta (Order) > Harrimaniidae (Family) > Saxipendium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Saxipendium Woodwick & Sensenbaugh, 1985
Sources  original description: Woodwick K, Sensenbaugh T (1985) Saxipendium coronatum, new genus, new species (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta): the unusual spaghetti worms of the Galápagos Rift hydrothermal vents. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 98: 351-365., available online at http://biostor.org/reference/75278 [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]

taxonomy source: Deland C, Cameron C, Rao K, Ritter W, Bullock T (2010) A taxonomic revision of the family Harrimaniidae (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta) with descriptions of seven species from the Eastern Pacific. Zootaxa: 1-30., available online at https://www.webdepot.umontreal.ca/Usagers/cameroc/MonDepotPublic/Cameron/#Publications [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English spaghetti worm  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Galapagos [details]
Revillagigedos [details]
Specimens  Unknown type: USNM 1074214, locality Galapagos Islands [details]
Holotype: USNM 97395, locality Galapagos Islands (near Rose Garden) [details]
Paratype: USNM 97397, locality Galapagos Islands (near Rose Garden) [details]
Paratype: USNM 97398, locality Galapagos Islands (near Rose Garden) [details]
Paratype: USNM 97396, locality Galapagos Islands (near Rose Garden) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To ChEss
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Hemichordata Collection
Notes  Classification: Cannon et al. (2009) showed they are members of the Harrimaniidae. [details]

Habitat: They were found near the 'Rose Garden' loosely attached to rocks. [details]
Image 
Saxipendium coronatum
Saxipendium coronatum
added on 2012-10-09 - author: R Lutz (CoML, ChEss & EoL) ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266849
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-04 16:37:03Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2011-08-19 16:19:09Z  changed  Konikoff, Charlotte
  
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  Citation: Konikoff, C.; van der Land, J. (2013). Saxipendium coronatum Woodwick & Sensenbaugh, 1985. In: Shenkar, N; Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2013) Hemichordata World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266849 on 2013-05-25
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