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Polynoe alba Treadwell, 1906 
AphiaID: 338896

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Polynoinae (Subfamily) > Polynoe (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (objective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Lepidasthenia alba (Treadwell, 1906)
Rank Species
Parent Polynoe Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Sources  original description: Treadwell, Aaron L. 1906. Polychaetous annelids of the Hawaiian Islands collected by the steamer Albatross in 1902. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, 23(3): 1145-1181. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Hartman, O. 1938. The types of the polychaete worms of the families Polynoidae and Polyodontidae in the United States National Museum and the description of a new genus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 86(3046): 107-134. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Specimen: Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM 5201) [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, Hawaii [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338896
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). Polynoe alba Treadwell, 1906. 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=338896 on 2013-05-24
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