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Protis simplex Ehlers, 1887 
AphiaID: 329928

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Protis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Protis Ehlers, 1887
Parent Protis Ehlers, 1887
Sources  original description: Ehlers, E. 1887. Report on the annelids 31. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Ser. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Poutalès, during the years 1868-1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the G [details]

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

additional source: Hove, Harry A. ten, & E.K. Kupriyanova, 2009. Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. Zootaxa 2036, 126 pp., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/zt02036p126.pdf
page(s): 81 [details] [full text]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Editor's comment: synonymised with Protis arctica by e.g. Fauvel (1914) and Zibrowius (1969), but regarded to be a separate species by e.g. Knight-Jones et al., 1977 [details]

Taxonomic Remark: see comment under Protis sombreriana as well [details]

Type locality: Caribbean Sea, off Florida [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329928
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-11-04 07:12:01Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Protis simplex Ehlers, 1887. 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=329928 on 2013-05-20
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