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Dasychone argus chefinae McIntosh, 1925 
AphiaID: 341051

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Sabellidae (Family) > Sabellinae (Subfamily) > Dasychone (Genus) > Dasychone argus (Species)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Branchiomma nigromaculatum (Baird, 1865)
Rank Subspecies
Parent Dasychone argus Sars, 1862 accepted as Branchiomma argus (Sars, 1862)
Sources  original description: McIntosh, W.C. 1925. A second contribution to the marine polychaetes of South Africa. Union South African Fisheries Marine Biological Survey, Report 5(4): 1-93. [details]

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

source of synonymy: Day, J.H. 1961. The Polychaete Fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 44(299): 463-560. [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Specimen: The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality: Indian Ocean, eastern Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341051
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-03-19 16:32:34Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Dasychone argus chefinae McIntosh, 1925. 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=341051 on 2013-06-20
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