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Polychaeta taxon details

Leodamas Kinberg, 1866 
AphiaID: 325863

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Scolecida (Subclass) > Orbiniidae (Family)
Status accepted
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Leodamas verax Kinberg, 1866 (type by monotypy)
Parent Orbiniidae Hartman, 1942
Sources  original description: Kinberg, J. G. H. 1865. Annulata Nova. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm 22(4): 239-258.
page(s): 252 [details]


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

status source: Blake, James A. 2000. A new genus and species of polychaete worm (Family Orbiniidae) from methane seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of the systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera of Orbiniidae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 41(4): 435-450.
page(s): 448 [details]


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 Species Leodamas minutus Lopez, Cladera & San Martin, 2003
Species Leodamas playthoracicus Lopez, Cladera & San Martin, 2003
Species Leodamas verax Kinberg, 1866
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Link To GenBank
Note  Taxonomy: Blake treats Leodamas as a full genus because of its heavy thoracic neuropodial spines, which differ from the narrow spines of Scoloplos. See Scoloplos (Leodamas) for a number of Leodamas species yet to be transferred here. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325863
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Date   action   by
2008-03-14 12:50:56Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2013-01-11 00:49:33Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Leodamas Kinberg, 1866. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). World Polychaeta database at http://www.marinespecies.org/Polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325863 on 2013-05-23