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Serpula penis Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 331871

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Serpula (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (basionym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Verpa penis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Verpa Röding, 1798
Parent Serpula Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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  Editor's comment: Serpula penis is now known to be a pholad mollusc, not an
annelid, in the Family Clavagellidae: Brechites penis (Linnaeus, 1758) [details]

Type locality: SE Asia [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331871
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2009-12-13 10:10:46Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
2009-12-22 11:41:07Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Serpula penis Linnaeus, 1758. 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=331871 on 2013-05-21
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