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Polychaeta taxon details

Sternaspis fossor Stimpson, 1854 
AphiaID: 131241

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Cirratuliformia (Suborder) > Sternaspidae (Family) > Sternaspis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Sternaspis Otto, 1821
Sources  original description: Stimpson, W., 1854. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.— Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 6: 1-66, Plates 1-3. [details]

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: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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

source of synonymy: 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]

redescription: Petersen, Mary E. 2000. Family Sternaspidae Carus, 1863, including a review of described species and comments on some points of confusion. pages 311-336. IN: Blake, J. A.; Hilbig, B.; and Scott, P. Valentich. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel. Volume 7, The Annelida Part 4, Polychaeta: Flabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]

redescription: Sendall, Kelly; Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio. 2013. Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286(0): 1-74, available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.286.4438
page(s): 34 [details]


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Subspecies Sternaspis fossor africana Augener, 1918 accepted as Sternaspis africana Augener, 1918
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Nova Scotia (from specimen)

Specimen  Neotype: USNM 15543, locality Nova Scotia (88 km E Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, 153 m, no geolocation data given.) [details]
Links Redescription of Sternaspis fossor Stimpson, 1854
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Note  Type locality: Designated by neotype as 88 km E Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, 153 m, no geolocation data given. Original holotype type locality Grand Manan Channel, Bay of Fundy, Canada.  [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131241
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Sternaspis fossor Stimpson, 1854. 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=131241 on 2013-05-26