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Amphiro gigantea Montagu, 1808 
AphiaID: 326385

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Amphiro (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Amphiro Kinberg, 1864 accepted as Marphysa Quatrefages, 1865
Synonymised
taxa		  Amphitrite gigantea (Montagu, 1808) (objective synonym)
Sources  original description: Montagu G. (1808). Description of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society, London, 9, pp. 81-114;pls. 2-8., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13719# [details]

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

basis of record: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details]

from synonym: McIntosh, W.C. 1923. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta, Sabellidae to Serpulidae. With additions to the British marine Polychaeta during the publication of the monograph. Ray Society of London, 4(2): 251-538. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Note  Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, Devonshire, England [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326385
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Amphiro gigantea Montagu, 1808. 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=326385 on 2013-05-23
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