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Polychaeta taxon details

Malmgrenia purpurea Day, 1960 
AphiaID: 339704

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Aphroditiformia (Suborder) > Polynoidae (Family) > Polynoinae (Subfamily) > Malmgrenia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Record
status
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Accepted name  Malmgreniella capensis (McIntosh, 1885)
Rank Species
Parent Malmgrenia McIntosh, 1874
Sources  original description: Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345 [details]

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

source of synonymy: Pettibone, Marian H. 1993. Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 538: 1-9., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5682 [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
Notes  Specimen: Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]

Taxonomy: Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]

Type locality: South Africa [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339704
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z  created  Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K. (2013). Malmgrenia purpurea Day, 1960. 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=339704 on 2013-05-26