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Amphisamytha Hessle, 1917 
AphiaID: 325227

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Ampharetidae (Family) > Ampharetinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Amphisamytha japonica Hessle, 1917
Parent Ampharetinae
Synonymised
taxa
  Amathys Desbruyères & Laubier, 1996 (subjective synonym)
Sources  original description: Hessle, Christian 1917. Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala, 5: 39-258.
page(s): 114 [details]


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

from synonym: Desbruyères, D. and Laubier, L. 1996. A new genus and species of ampharetid polychaete from deep-sea hydrothermal vent community in the Azores triple-junction area. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 109(2): 248-255. [details] [view taxon]

identification resource: Reuscher, M.; Fiege, D.; Wehe, T. 2009. Four new species of Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Pacific hot vents and cold seeps, with a key and synoptic table of characters for all genera. Zootaxa 2191: 1-40, available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2009/zt02191.html [details]

identification resource: Stiller, Josefin; Rousset, Vincent; Pleijel, Fredrik; Chevaldonné, Pierre; Vrijenhoek, Robert C.; Rouse, Greg W. 2013. Phylogeny, biogeography and systematics of hydrothermal vent and methane seep Amphisamytha (Ampharetidae, Annelida), with descriptions of three new species. Systematics and Biodiversity 11(1): 35-65 , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2013.772925 [details]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Amphisamytha bioculata (Moore, 1906)
Species Amphisamytha carldarei Stiller, Rousset, Pleijel, Chevaldonné, Vrijenhoek & Rouse 2013
Species Amphisamytha fauchaldi Solís-Weiss & Hernández-Alcántara, 1994
Species Amphisamytha galapagensis Zottoli, 1983
Species Amphisamytha jacksoni Stiller, Rousset, Pleijel, Chevaldonné, Vrijenhoek & Rouse 2013
Species Amphisamytha japonica Hessle, 1917
Species Amphisamytha julianeae Stiller, Rousset, Pleijel, Chevaldonné, Vrijenhoek & Rouse 2013
Species Amphisamytha lutzi (Desbruyères & Laubier, 1996)
Species Amphisamytha vanuatuensis Reuscher, Fiege & Wehe, 2009
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325227
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-05 14:39:51Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-12-08 19:21:32Z  changed  Reuscher, Michael
  
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  Citation: Reuscher, M.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Amphisamytha Hessle, 1917. 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=325227 on 2013-05-23
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