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Polynoe lactea Ehlers, 1887 
AphiaID: 339020

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
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Accepted name  Lepidonotus lacteus (Ehlers, 1887)
Rank Species
Parent Polynoe Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Sources  original description: Ehlers, E. 1887. Report on the annelids of the dredging expedition of the U.S. coast survey steamer Blake. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 15: VIand335pp. [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
Notes  Specimen: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: Caribbean Sea, off Florida [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339020
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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 lactea Ehlers, 1887. 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=339020 on 2013-05-19
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