WoRMS taxon details
Questidae Hartman, 1966
AphiaID: 904
AphiaID: 904
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) |
| Status |  unaccepted (subjective synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Questa Hartman, 1966 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Scolecida | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hartman, O. 1966. Quantitive survey of the benthos of San Pedro Basin, southern California. Part II. Final results and conclusions. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 19(2): 187-455. page(s): 197 [details] basis of record: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] additional source: Rouse, G.W. and Fauchald, K. 1997. Cladistics and polychaetes. Zoologica Scripta 26(2): 139-204. [details] additional source: Rousset, Vincent; Pleijel, Fredrik; Rouse, Greg W.; Erseus, Christer; Siddall, Mark E. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of annelids. Cladistics 23(1): 41-63 , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2006.00128.x [details] redescription: Giere, Olav and Erséus, Christer 1998. A systematic account of the Questidae (Annelida, Polychaeta), with description of new taxa. Zoologica Scripta, 27(4): 345-360, 5 figures, 3 tables. [details] status source: Giere, O.; Ebbe, B.; Erseus, C. 2007. Questa (Annelida, Polychaeta, Orbiniidae) from Pacific regions - new species and reassessment of the genus Periquesta. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 7(4): 304-319, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ode.2007.04.001 [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Novaquesta Hobson, 1970 accepted as Questa Hartman, 1966 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Classification: Erected for Questa Hartman, 1966, which is a genus of superficially oligochaete-like polychaetes with diagnostic aberrant internal features. Now asserted on molecular and other grounds to belong as a sub-group in Orbiniidae. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:904 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Questidae Hartman, 1966. 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=904 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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