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Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884 
AphiaID: 338565

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Spionida (Order) > Spioniformia (Suborder) > Spionidae (Family) > Spio (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Pygospio elegans Claparède, 1863
Rank Species
Parent Spio Fabricius, 1785
Sources  original description: Webster, Henry E. and Benedict, James E. 1884. The Annelida Chaetopoda from Provincetown and Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Annual Report of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 1881: 699-747. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Mesnil, F. 1897. Études de morphologie externe chez les Annélides. II. Remarques complémentaires sur les Spionidiens. La famille nouvelle des Disomidiens. La place des Aonides (sensu Tauber, Levinsen). Bulletin scientifique de la France et de la Belgique 30: 83-100. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338565
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). Spio rathbuni Webster & Benedict, 1884. 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=338565 on 2013-06-19
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