WoRMS taxon details
Asterophilia culcitae Britayev & Fauchald, 2005
326680 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326680)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Britayev, Temir A.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2005). New species of symbiotic scaleworms <i>Asterophilia</i> (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from Vietnam. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 2(1): 15-22, unnumbered page with fig. 3., available online at http://www.nature.air.ru/invertebrates/pdf_files/britaev_05_1.pdf [details] Available for editors 
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Type locality contained in Bay of Nha Trang
, Note Tam Island, Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, South China Sea
type locality contained in Bay of Nha Trang [details]
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Type locality Tam Island, Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, South China Sea [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Asterophilia culcitae Britayev & Fauchald, 2005. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326680 on 2025-04-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Britayev, Temir A.; Fauchald, Kristian. (2005). New species of symbiotic scaleworms <i>Asterophilia</i> (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from Vietnam. <em>Invertebrate Zoology.</em> 2(1): 15-22, unnumbered page with fig. 3., available online at http://www.nature.air.ru/invertebrates/pdf_files/britaev_05_1.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
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ecology source
Sugiyama, Takahiro; Jimi, Naoto; Goto, Ryutaro. (2020). Widening the host range of the ectosymbiotic scale-worm <i>Asterophilia culcitae</i> (Annelida: Polynoidae) to three echinoderm classes, with data on its body color variation. <em>Plankton and Benthos Research.</em> 15(4): 289-295., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pbr/15/4/15_B150402/_article/-char/en [details] Available for editors [request]
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Britayev, Temir A.; Antokhina, T.I. (2012). Symbiotic polychaetes from Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam. In: Britayev, T.A.; Pavlov, D.S. (eds). <em>[book].</em> Benthic fauna of the Bay of Nhatrang, Southern Vietnam. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 491 pp. Volume 2: 11-55., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258626701_Symbiotic_polychaetes_from_Nhatrang_Bay_Vietnam
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
