WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Myzostoma elegans Graff, 1877

AphiaID

335201 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:335201)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Myzostoma Leuckart, 1836

Orig. name

Myzostoma elegans Graff, 1877

Synonymised names

Myzostomum elegans Graff, 1877 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Graff, Ludwig von. (1877). Das Genus Myzostoma (F.S. Leuckart). 1-82. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:oxfaleph012857796 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Myzostoma elegans Graff, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=335201 on 2024-04-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-17 10:44:16Z

created

Fauchald, Kristian

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

Licensing

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[taxonomic tree]

original description Graff, Ludwig von. (1877). Das Genus Myzostoma (F.S. Leuckart). 1-82. Wilhelm Engelmann. Leipzig., available online at http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:oxfaleph012857796 [details]

taxonomy source Eeckhaut, Igor; VandenSpiegel, Didier; Grygier, Mark J. (1994). Myzostomida (Annelida) from Singapore, with related Indo-Pacific distribution records and descriptions of three new species. <em>The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.</em> 42(3): 669-688., available online at https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/04/423-669-688.pdf
page(s): 676, figures 12, 18, 25B~C; note: Description of Singapore specimens and various others from Indonesia, Fiji, Bay of Bengal, and Sulu Archipelago, but apparently no type-series specimens. [details] Available for editors