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Neopomatus Pillai, 1960 
AphiaID: 325122

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (junior synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Ficopomatus Southern, 1921
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Neopomatus uschakovi Pillai, 1960 (type by original designation)
Parent Serpulidae Rafinesque, 1815
Sources  original description: Pillai, T. Gottfried 1960. Some marine and brackish water serpulid polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences), 3(1): 1-40. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Hove, Harry A. ten and Weerdenburg, J. C. A. 1978. A generic revision of the brackish-water serpulid Ficopomatus Southern 1921 (Polychaeta: Serpulinae), including Mercierella Fauvel 1923, Sphaeropomatus Treadwell 1934, Mercierellopsis Rioja 1945 and Neopomatus Pillai 1960. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 154: 96-120. [details]

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Species Neopomatus similis Pillai, 1960 accepted as Ficopomatus uschakovi (Pillai, 1960)
Species Neopomatus uschakovi Pillai, 1960 accepted as Ficopomatus uschakovi (Pillai, 1960)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Note  Taxonomic Remark: it should be noted that Pillai (2008) reinstated the genus Neopomatus [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325122
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-05 14:39:51Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2009-01-30 09:52:09Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Neopomatus Pillai, 1960. 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=325122 on 2013-05-23
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