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Spirobranchus tricornigerus (Grube, 1878) 
AphiaID: 335140

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Spirobranchus (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861)
Rank Species
Parent Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818
Sources  basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source: Pillai, T. Gottfried 1960. Some marine and brackish water serpulid polychaeta from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences), 3(1): 1-40.
page(s): 20 [details]

source of synonymy: Hove, Harry A. ten 1970. Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - the genus Spirobranchus. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands, 32: 1-57.
page(s): 3 [details]

new combination reference: Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl.Oyster.Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV supplementary report 30: 212-324.
page(s): 318 [details]

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Subspecies Spirobranchus tricornigerus decoratus Imajima, 1982 accepted as Spirobranchus decoratus Imajima, 1982
Subspecies Spirobranchus tricornigerus racemosus Pillai, 1971 accepted as Spirobranchus decoratus Imajima, 1982
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:335140
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-17 10:44:16Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2010-03-13 21:19:31Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Spirobranchus tricornigerus (Grube, 1878). 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=335140 on 2013-05-21
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