Galeolaria decumbens Sowerby & Sowerby, 1820-25 
AphiaID: 328069

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Sabellida (Order) > Serpulidae (Family) > Galeolaria (Genus)

Status		unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name		Galeolaria caespitosa Lamarck, 1818
Rank		Species
Parent		Galeolaria Lamarck, 1818
Sources		original description: Sowerby, J., & G.B. Sowerby, 1820-25. The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students in conchology and geology. Vol. 1. London. [details] basis of record: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [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: Baird, William 1865. Description of several new species and varieties of tubicolous Annelides =tribe Limivora of Grube, in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 8: 10-22. [details] additional source: Mörch, O. A. L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Rørormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, København, Ser. 3, 1: 347-470, pl. 11 [also issued as a separate, 1–124, pl. 11]. , available online at http://www.archive.org/details/naturhistoriskti01copeuoft [details] source of synonymy: Deshayes, G.P. & H. Milne Edwards, 1836. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, par J.B.P.A. de Lamarck. 2me Édition, tome 2. Paris, Baillière : 1-683. page(s): 637 [details] source of synonymy: Haswell, William A. 1885. The marine annelids of the order Serpulea. Some observations on the their anatomy, with the characteristics of the Australian species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 9(3): 649-675. [details]
Environment		marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range		recent only
Notes		Editor's comment: Sowerby & Sowerby's figures are unmistakably caespitosa. His (their) later attribution of material from the Cape (in Mörch 1863: 369-370) should most probably be attributed to Pomatoleios kraussii  [details] Type locality: Africa and Australia [details]
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328069
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2008-03-17 10:44:16Z   created   Fauchald, Kristian 2008-03-26 11:36:43Z   changed   Fauchald, Kristian 2009-08-12 12:06:36Z   changed   ten Hove, Harry
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		Citation: ten Hove, H.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Galeolaria decumbens Sowerby & Sowerby, 1820-25. 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=328069 on 2013-05-20