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Lycastis brevicornis Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 
AphiaID: 337275

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Syllidae (Family) > Syllinae (Subfamily) > Lycastis (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (objective synonym|comb. Nov)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Namalycastis brevicornis (Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833)
Rank Species
Parent Lycastis Savigny, 1822 accepted as Syllis Lamarck, 1818
Sources  original description: Audouin, J.V. and Milne Edwards, H. 1833. Classification des Annélides et description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. Annales des sciences naturelles, Paris, sér. 1, 29: 195-269. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Glasby, C.J. 1999. The Namanereidinae (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Part 1, Taxonomy and Phylogeny. Part 2, Cladistic biogeography. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 25: 1-129. [details]

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1959. Capitellidae and Nereidae (marine annelids) from the Gulf side of Florida with a review of freshwater Nereidae. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 9(2): 153-168. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To PESI
Notes  Specimen: Musée National d'histoire Naturelle, Paris, POLY TYPE 1370 [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: La Rochelle, Charente, France [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337275
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Lycastis brevicornis Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833. 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=337275 on 2013-06-18
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