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Protula arafurensis McIntosh, 1885 
AphiaID: 331341

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Protula (Genus)
Status species inquirenda
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Protula Risso, 1826
Synonymised
taxa
  Subprotula arafraensis (McIntosh, 1885) (objective synonym, lapsus for arafurensis)
Sources  original description: McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger during the years 1872-76, Ser. Zoology, 12: 1-554., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-34/htm/doc.html [details]

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

status source: Hartman, O. 1969. Atlas of the sedentariate polychaetous annelids from California. 1-812. Allan Hancock Foundation, University of Southern California. Los Angeles. [details]

status source: Hove, Harry A. ten 1994. Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Seychelles and Amirante Islands, in J.v.d. Land ed., Oceanic reefs of the Seychelles. Cruise reports Neth. Indian Ocean Programm II: Leiden, Nat. Nat. Mus. Leiden, p. 107-116.
page(s): 109 [details]


basis of record (from synonym): Uchida, Hiro'omi 1978. Serpulid tube worms (Polychaeta, Sedentaria) from Japan with the systematic review of the group. Bulletin of the Marine Park Research Stations, 2(1/2): 1-98.
page(s): 75 [details] [view taxon]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Taxonomic status: McIntosh's original description is insufficient for a species distinction (ten Hove 1994: 109, unidentifiable); Treadwell's 1906 record from California is a Vermiliopsis (fide Hartman 1969: 782) [details]

Type locality: Australia, Arafura Sea [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331341
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2009-10-08 11:37:20Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Protula arafurensis McIntosh, 1885. 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=331341 on 2013-06-19
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