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Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001 
AphiaID: 329519

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Polynoinae (Subfamily) > Neopolynoe (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Neopolynoe Loshamn, 1981
Sources  original description: Kirkegaard, J. B. 2001. Deep-sea polychaetes from north-west Africa, including a description of a new species of Neopolynoe (Polynoidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81(3): 391-397. [details]

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

context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Habitat: Neopolynoe africana was found living in transparent tubes on the surface of a Chondrocladia sp. sponge. Elytra reportedly strongly luminesce.  [details]

Type locality: East of Canary Islands, North east Atlantic, at 1610 m. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329519
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). Neopolynoe africana Kirkegaard, 2001. 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=329519 on 2013-05-25
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