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Serpula muricata Born, 1780 
AphiaID: 447731

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Serpula (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (new name erroneously given to Serpula anguina)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tenagodus anguinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Serpula Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: Born, I. von (1780) Testacea Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis, quæ jussu Mariæ Theresiæ Augustæ disposuit et descripsit. - pp. I-XXXVI [= 1-13], 1-442, Tab. 1-18. Vindobonæ., available online at http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/reference?id=872
page(s): 440 [details]

source of synonymy: Bieler, R., 1992. Tenagodus or Siliquaria? Unravelling taxonomic confusion in marine "worm-snails" (Cerithioidea: Siliquariidae). The Nautilus, 106(1): 15-20 [27 February]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34204#page/25/mode/1up [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Homonymy: Serpula muricata Fleming, 1825: 244, which most probably is a synonym of the serpulid Placostegus tridentatus [details]

Taxonomic Remark: S. muricata Born, 1780: 440 was erroneously coined for Serpula anguina Linnaeus, 1758, nowadays placed in the Gastropod genus Tenagodus. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:447731
Taxonomic
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2010-01-13 20:47:49Z  created  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H. (2013). Serpula muricata Born, 1780. 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=447731 on 2013-05-18
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