Sternaspis elegans Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821 
AphiaID: 268082

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Cirratuliformia (Suborder) > Sternaspidae (Family) > Sternaspis (Genus)

Status		unaccepted (Sipuncula, not Polychaeta)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821)
Rank		Species
Parent		Sternaspis Otto, 1821
Sources		original description: Chamisso Adelbertus de & Eysenhardt Carolus Guilelmus (1821). De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana, in circumnavigatione Terrae, auspicante Comite N. Romanoff, duce Ottone di Kotzebue, annis 1815-1818 peracta, observatis Fasciculus secundus, reliquos vermes continens. Nova Acta physico-medica Academiae Cesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10: 343-373, Plates 24 to 33., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020829 page(s): 351 [details] basis of record: 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] additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details] source of synonymy: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Link		To Encyclopedia of Life
Note		Type locality: Pacific Ocean "Ad Insulas humiles maris pacifici" Low Pacific islands might be a reference to Pacific atolls. [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268082
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-01-14 12:30:06Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2008-03-13 13:29:12Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian 2013-01-23 21:49:43Z   changed   Read, Geoffrey
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		Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Sternaspis elegans Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268082 on 2013-05-24