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Eunice petersi Fauchald, 1992 
AphiaID: 327768

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family) > Eunice (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Eunice Cuvier, 1817
Synonymised
taxa
  Eunice afra punctata Peters, 1854 (superseded as subspecies, renamed homonym as full species)
Eunice punctata Peters, 1854 (renamed homonym)
Sources  original description: Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 523: 1-422. [details]

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

taxonomy source (from synonym): Day, J.H. 1957. The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. Annals of the Natal Museum, 14(1): 59-129.
page(s): 89 [details] [view taxon]


source of synonymy (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Peters, Wilhelm C. H. 1854. Über die Gattung Bdella, Savigny, (Limnatis, Moquin-Tandon) und die in Mossambique beobachteten Anneliden, wovon hier eine Mittheilung folgt [informal title in meeting report]. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 607-614 , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11068511 [details] [view taxon] [full text]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Quatrefages, Armand de. 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 1. 1-588. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. [some vol.2 species are also linked here but see also source 51472]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Note  Type locality: Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:327768
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). Eunice petersi Fauchald, 1992. 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=327768 on 2013-06-19
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