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Spirobranchus arabicus Monro, 1937 
AphiaID: 465250

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Spirobranchus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818
Synonymised
taxa		  Spirobranchus giganteus arabica Monro, 1937 (objective synonym)
Sources  redescription: Pillai, T.G. 2009 Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. Records of the Australian Museum 61(2): 93–199., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Pillai-2009-Rec-Aust-Mus-612-93199/
page(s): 163 [details]

source of synonymy (from synonym): Hove, Harry A. ten 1970. Serpulinae (Polychaeta) from the Caribbean: I - the genus Spirobranchus. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands, 32: 1-57.
page(s): 4 [details] [view taxon]

original description (from synonym): Monro, Charles C. A. 1937. Polychaeta. The John Murray Expedition Scientific reports, 4(8): 243-321.
page(s): 317 [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Status: the original trinomen was regarded to be a synonym of Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861) by ten Hove (1970: 4) [details]

Syntype: BMNH 1937.9.2.545–548 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465250
Taxonomic
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2010-03-10 20:53:43Z  created  ten Hove, Harry
  
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  Citation: ten Hove, H. (2013). Spirobranchus arabicus Monro, 1937. 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=465250 on 2013-06-20
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