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Laeospira Caullery & Mesnil, 1897 
AphiaID: 325112

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised
taxa
  Leospira
Sources  original description: Caullery, M. and Mesnil, F. 1897. Etudes sur la morphologie comparee et la phylogenie des especes chez les Spirorbes. Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique, 30: 185-233. [details]

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]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Laeospira asperata (Bush, 1905)
Species Laeospira beneti (Marion, 1879)
Species Laeospira berkeleyana (Rioja, 1942)
Species Laeospira borealis (Daudin, 1800)
Species Laeospira corallinae (de Silva & Knight-Jones, 1962)
Species Laeospira cornuarietis (Philippi, 1844)
Species Laeospira granulata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Laeospira helenpixelli (Rioja, 1942)
Species Laeospira moerchi (Levinsen, 1883)
Species Laeospira pacifica Uchida, 1971
Species Laeospira rosepigmentata Uchida, 1971
Species Laeospira rupestris (Gee & Knight-Jones, 1962)
Species Laeospira sarsiae (Southward, 1963)
Species Laeospira superba (Pillai, 1960)

Species Laeospira koehleri Caullery & Mesnil, 1897 accepted as Vinearia koehleri (Caullery & Mesnil, 1897)
Species Laeospira orientalis (Pillai, 1960) accepted as Eulaeospira orientalis (Pillai, 1960)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325112
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-05 14:39:51Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2009-04-30 19:58:32Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Laeospira Caullery & Mesnil, 1897. 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=325112 on 2013-05-23
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