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Polychaeta taxon details

Sternaspis affinis Stimpson, 1864 
AphiaID: 338196

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Canalipalpata (Subclass) > Terebellida (Order) > Cirratuliformia (Suborder) > Sternaspidae (Family) > Sternaspis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Sternaspis Otto, 1821
Sources  original description: Stimpson, W., 1864. Descriptions of new species of marine Invertebrata from Puget Sound, collected by the naturalists of the North-West Boundary Commission, A.H. Campbell, Esq., Commissioner.— Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1864: 153-161., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1942749 [details]

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

source of synonymy: Fauvel, P. 1927. Polychètes sédentaires. Addenda aux errantes, Arachiannélides, Myzostomaires. Faune de France Volume 16. 1-494. Paul Lechevalier. Paris., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/P.FAUVEL(FdeFr16)Polychetes-sendentaires.pdf [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): 23 [details]


Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution 
Specimen  Neotype: RBCPM RBCM 005- 138-001 [details]
Links Sternaspis affinis Stimpson redescription (neotype)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Type locality: Type locality designated by neotype locality, 49.1797222, -123.3005556, is Straits of Georgia, Canada. The original type locality was an unstated location assumed within Puget Sound, USA (title of paper). Strictly Straits of Georgia is beyond Puget Sound, but this seems immaterial given the vague original location of Stimpson's sample [G. Read ed's comment] [details]

Type material: "The original material was deposited in the Smithsonian and later transferred to Chicago when William Stimpson was appointed director of the local Academy of Sciences in 1866, but [...] destroyed in 1871 during the great Chicago fire ..." [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338196
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2013-04-11 04:37:35Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Sternaspis affinis Stimpson, 1864. 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=338196 on 2013-06-20