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Polychaeta taxon details

Amphitrite figulus (Dalyell) 
AphiaID: 155162

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Terebellomorpha (Suborder) > Terebellidae (Family) > Terebellinae (Subfamily) > Amphitrite (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
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 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Amphitrite O.F. Müller, 1771
Sources  basis of record: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

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

additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

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

source of synonymy: McIntosh, W.C. 1923. A monograph of the British marine annelids. Polychaeta, Sabellidae to Serpulidae. With additions to the British marine Polychaeta during the publication of the monograph. Ray Society of London, 4(2): 251-538. [details]

redescription: Jirkov, I.A. 2001. [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Moskva, Yanus-K, 1-632, available online at http://hydro.bio.msu.ru/Personal/Jirkov.htm [details]

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 Subspecies Amphitrite figulus belomorica Tzetlin, 1983
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic [details]
British Isles [details]
Canada [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]

Feedingtype  deposit feeder [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Acadian, north side of Cape Cod to Newfoundland, extending south of the subprovince boundary [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Habitat: Found in the littoral zone, over sand and mud substrate. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:155162
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-04-22 07:56:35Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-03-13 13:29:12Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Amphitrite figulus (Dalyell). 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=155162 on 2013-06-19