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Prionospio saldanha Day, 1961 
AphiaID: 338540

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Prionospio (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Prionospio Malmgren, 1867
Synonymised
taxa
  Apoprionospio saldanha (Day, 1961) (superseded recombination)
Sources  original description: Day, J.H. 1961. The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 44(299): 463-560. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Foster, Nancy Marie 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of CuraƧao and other Caribbean Islands, 36(129): 1-183. [details]

source of synonymy: Foster, Nancy M. 1969. New species of spionids (Polychaeta) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea with a partial revision of the genus Prionospio. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82(38), 381-400. [details]

status source: Maciolek, Nancy J. 1985. A revision of the genus Prionospio Malmgren, with special emphasis on species from the Atlantic Ocean, and new records of species belonging to the genera Apoprionospio Foster and Paraprionospio Caullery (Polychaeta, Annelida, Spionidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 84: 325-383., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1985.tb01804.x [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Taxonomy: Moved to different genus|Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338540
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2011-01-27 22:40:25Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Prionospio saldanha Day, 1961. 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=338540 on 2013-05-25
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