World Polychaeta Database - Megasyllis marquesensis (Monro, 1939)

Polychaeta taxon details

Megasyllis marquesensis (Monro, 1939)

AphiaID

759945 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:759945)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Megasyllis San Martín, Hutchings & Aguado, 2008

Orig. name

Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939

Synonymised names

Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939 · unaccepted (superseded original combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939) Monro, C.C.A. (1939). On some tropical Polychaeta in the British Museum, mostly collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Zanzibar, Tahiti and the Marquesas. II. Families Syllidae and Hesionidae. <em>Novitates Zoologicae, London.</em> 41: 383-393., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34053626#page/429/mode/1up
page(s): 387-389, text-fig. 299 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Marquesas Islands, Tahiti

type locality contained in Marquesas Islands [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in Tahiti [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range Shore depths.

Depth range Shore depths. [details]

Distribution Pacific Ocean: Marquesas Islands and Tahiti.

Distribution Pacific Ocean: Marquesas Islands and Tahiti. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Megasyllis marquesensis (Monro, 1939). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759945 on 2024-04-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-04-14 10:21:48Z

created

Gil, João

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939) Monro, C.C.A. (1939). On some tropical Polychaeta in the British Museum, mostly collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Zanzibar, Tahiti and the Marquesas. II. Families Syllidae and Hesionidae. <em>Novitates Zoologicae, London.</em> 41: 383-393., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34053626#page/429/mode/1up
page(s): 387-389, text-fig. 299 [details]

new combination reference San Martín, Guillermo; Aguado, María Teresa; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia. 2014. Revision of the genus Megasyllis (Annelida, Syllidae) with descriptions of four new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94(02): 331-351
page(s): 343, figs. 8-9 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Syntype (of Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939) NHMUK 1932.7.8.17-27, geounit Marquesas [details]

Syntype (of Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939) NHMUK 1941.4.4.1, geounit Tahiti [details]

From editor or global species database

Depth range Shore depths. [details]

Distribution Pacific Ocean: Marquesas Islands and Tahiti. [details]

Habitat Among weed lining pool on the shore shelf and under stones. [details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Pionosyllis marquesensis Monro, 1939)