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Polynoe capensis McIntosh, 1885 
AphiaID: 339720

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  Malmgreniella capensis (McIntosh, 1885)
Rank Species
Parent Polynoe Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Sources  original description: McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger during the years 1872-76, Ser. Zoology, 12: 1-554., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-34/htm/doc.html [details]

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

source of synonymy: Pettibone, Marian H. 1993. Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 538: 1-9., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5682 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To ITIS
Notes  Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Taxonomy: Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339720
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 capensis McIntosh, 1885. 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=339720 on 2013-05-23
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