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Nereis grandis Stimpson, 1854 
AphiaID: 339299

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Nereidiformia (Suborder) > Nereididae (Family) > Nereidinae (Subfamily) > Nereis (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835)
Rank Species
Parent Nereis Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Stimpson, W., 1854. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.— Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 6: 1-66, Plates 1-3. [details]

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 (12 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality: Atlantic Ocean, eastern Canada [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339299
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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). Nereis grandis. 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=339299 on 2013-05-20
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