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Owenia artifex (Verrill, 1885) 
AphiaID: 334326

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Oweniidae (Family) > Owenia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Owenia Delle Chiaje, 1844
Synonymised
taxa
  Ammochares artifex Verrill, 1885 (objective synonym)
Sources  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]

from synonym: Verrill, A.E., 1885. Notice of recent additions to the marine invertebrata of the northeastern coast of America, with descriptions of new genera and species and critical remarks on others. Pt 5. Annelida, Echinodermata, Hydroida, Tunicata. Proc. U.S. natn. Mus. 8 27-28: 424-448. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334326
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
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). Owenia artifex (Verrill, 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=334326 on 2013-05-23
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