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Protothelepus Verrill, 1900 
AphiaID: 325996

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Thelepodinae (Subfamily)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Euthelepus McIntosh, 1885
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Protothelepus tenuis Verrill, 1900 (type by monotypy)
Parent Thelepodinae Hessle, 1917
Sources  original description: Verrill, A.E. 1900. Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 10(2): 595-671.
page(s): 662 [details]

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

status source: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp.
page(s): 520 [details]

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Species Protothelepus tenuis Verrill, 1900 accepted as Euthelepus tenuis (Verrill, 1900)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325996
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-14 12:50:56Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2011-09-22 21:25:12Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Protothelepus Verrill, 1900. 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=325996 on 2013-05-23
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