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Chaetopterus capensis Stimpson, 1856 
AphiaID: 336422

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Chaetopteridae (Family) > Chaetopterus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chaetopterus Cuvier, 1830
Sources  original description: Stimpson, W. 1856. Description of some new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 7(10): 385-395., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499 [details]

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

source of synonymy: Day, J.H. 1967. A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Volume British Museum (Natural History) Publication 656. 1-878. British Museum (Natural History). London., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]

status source: Nishi, Eijiroh. 2001. Partial revision of Japanese Chaetopterus (Chaetopteridae: Polychaeta), including description of three new species from southern Pacific side of central Japan. Actinia. Bulletin of the Manazuru Marine Laboratory for Science Education, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University 14: 1-26, available online at http://jairo.nii.ac.jp/0009/00001027/en
page(s): 21 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Taxonomy: Nishi records a specimen collected from an unknown location on the South African coast as C. capensis. He makes no comment on the original description or types. [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336422
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-20 06:44:16Z  changed  Decock, Wim
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-07-09 22:25:23Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Chaetopterus capensis Stimpson, 1856. 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=336422 on 2013-05-19
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