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Polynoe gigas Johnson, 1897 
AphiaID: 338901

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 gigas (Johnson, 1897)
Rank Species
Parent Polynoe Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Sources  original description: Johnson, Herbert P. 1897. A preliminary account of the marine annelids of the Pacific coast, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Ser. 3, 1(5): 153-199., available online at http://www.archive.org/details/proceedingscali01sciegoog [details] [full text]

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
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications)
To ITIS
Notes  Specimen: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: Pacific Ocean, San Pedro or Point Loma, California [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338901
Taxonomic
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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 gigas Johnson, 1897. 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=338901 on 2013-06-20
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