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Polychaeta taxon details

Palola Gray in Stair, 1847 
AphiaID: 129283

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Eunicida (Order) > Eunicidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847
Parent Eunicidae Berthold, 1827
Synonymised
taxa
  Lithognatha Stewart, 1881 (junior synonym)
Nereidonta Blainville, 1828 (junior synonym)
Palolo (misspelled)
Sources  basis of record: Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231 (look up in IMIS[details]

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

from synonym: Fauchald, K. 1992. Review of the types of Palola (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). Journal of Natural History, 26: 1177-1225. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628pp. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Palola accrescens (Hoagland, 1920)
Species Palola brasiliensis Zanol, Paiva & Attolini, 2000
Species Palola ebranchiata (Quatrefages, 1866)
Species Palola edentulum (Ehlers, 1901)
Species Palola esbelta Morgado & Amaral, 1981
Species Palola leucodon (Ehlers, 1901)
Species Palola madeirensis (Baird, 1869)
Species Palola pallidus Hartman, 1938
Species Palola paloloides (Moore, 1909)
Species Palola siciliensis (Grube, 1840)
Species Palola simplex (Peters, 1854)
Species Palola valida (Gravier, 1900)
Species Palola vernalis (Treadwell, 1922)
Species Palola viridis Gray in Stair, 1847

Species Palola bitorquata (Grube, 1870) (nomen dubium)
Species Palola dubia (Woodworth, 1907) (nomen dubium)
Species Palola gallapagensis (Kinberg, 1865) (nomen dubium)
Species Palola longicirrata (Kinberg, 1865) (nomen dubium)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
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Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129283
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, GĂ©rard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-04-12 16:44:24Z  changed  Zanol, Joana
  
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  Citation: Zanol, J.; Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Palola Gray in Stair, 1847. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129283 on 2013-05-21