WoRMS taxon details
Lepidasthenia maculata Potts, 1910
130797 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130797)
accepted
Species
- Subspecies Lepidasthenia maculata stricta Fauvel, 1932
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology.</em> 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
page(s): 344, plate 20 figure 33, plate 21 figure 51 [details]
page(s): 344, plate 20 figure 33, plate 21 figure 51 [details]
Holotype BM, geounit Zanzibar
Holotype BM, geounit Zanzibar [details]
Distribution Due to confusion with L. brunnea Day, 1960 all records in the ERMS area are doubtful (cf. Barnich & Fiege 2003)
Distribution Distribution: Zanzibar, Marocco, Azores (Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Distribution Due to confusion with L. brunnea Day, 1960 all records in the ERMS area are doubtful (cf. Barnich & Fiege 2003) [details]
Distribution Distribution: Zanzibar, Marocco, Azores (Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Distribution Distribution: Zanzibar, Marocco, Azores (Fauvel,1953); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lepidasthenia maculata Potts, 1910. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130797 on 2025-04-26
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Nomenclature
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Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology.</em> 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
page(s): 344, plate 20 figure 33, plate 21 figure 51 [details]
page(s): 344, plate 20 figure 33, plate 21 figure 51 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BM, geounit Zanzibar [details]
