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Serpula compressa Quatrefages, 1866 
AphiaID: 331825

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Serpula (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Serpula concharum Langerhans, 1880
Rank Species
Parent Serpula Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Quatrefages, Armand de. 1866. Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. Volume 1. 1-588. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris. [some vol.2 species are also linked here but see also source 51472]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 500 [details]

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

basis of record: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  regarded to be indeterminable by e.g. Hartman (1959: 593), its description is rather reminiscent of S. concharum. Quatrefages (1866: 501) mentions a resemblance with S. aspera, also partly synonymous with S. concharum (but mostly with S. vermicularis). [details]

Homonymy: Serpula compressa Sowerby, 1829 (p.201), a fossil from the Limestone Strata, Linlithgow [details]

Type locality: Mediterranean Sea, Italy [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331825
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2009-11-08 20:46:57Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Serpula compressa Quatrefages, 1866. 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=331825 on 2013-05-25
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