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Parasclerocheilus capensis Day, 1961 
AphiaID: 330390

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Scalibregmatidae (Family) > Parasclerocheilus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Parasclerocheilus Fauvel, 1928
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]

additional source: Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 585-586, fig. 27.1.a-f [details]


additional source: Day, J.H. 1963. The Polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Ser. Zoology, 10(7): 384-445.
page(s): 429 [details]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Specimen  Nontype , locality Namibian part of the South Atlantic Ocean (just north of the Orange River mouth) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: The coordinates of the record from near the mouth of Orange River are as provided in Day (1967). They were provided by the author only as approximative, and for this reason the location falls on land.  [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330390
Taxonomic
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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). Parasclerocheilus 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=330390 on 2013-05-22
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