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Serpula ornata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1820-25 
AphiaID: 338119

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Serpula (Genus)
Status species inquirenda
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Serpula Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Mörch, O. A. L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, København, Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]. , available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft [details]

original description: Sowerby, J., & G.B. Sowerby, 1820-25. The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. Vol. 1. London. [details]

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

source of synonymy: 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: Plate 2 fig.8 depicts an attached tube with medial keel flanked by two rows of pits, rather reminiscent of Spirobranchus polytrema! The taxon was attributed to Placostegus by Mörch (1863: 420) [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: SE Asia, Philippines [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338119
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
2009-07-31 12:33:51Z  changed  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Serpula ornata Sowerby & Sowerby, 1820-25. 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=338119 on 2013-05-22
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