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Ficopomatus capensis Day, 1961 
AphiaID: 328032

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Ficopomatus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (transfer of generic attribution)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Pseudochitinopoma capensis (Day, 1961)
Rank Species
Parent Ficopomatus Southern, 1921
Sources  original description: Day, J.H. 1961. The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 44(299): 463-560. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Kupriyanova, Elena K., & H.A. ten Hove & E. Nishi, 2012. A taxonomic revision of Pseudochitinopoma Zibrowius, 1969 (Annelida, Serpulidae) with description of two new species. Zootaxa 3597: 57-78., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3507.html [details]

new combination reference: 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.
page(s): 101 [details]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Editor's comment: ten Hove and Kupriyanova argue that the species most probably not is a Ficopomatus, but belongs in Chitinopoma [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328032
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2009-01-30 09:52:09Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
2012-10-07 08:42:54Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Ficopomatus capensis Day, 1961. 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=328032 on 2013-05-18
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