WoRMS taxon details
Leiocanthus mainensis (Blake, 1930) Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016
1433391 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1433391)
accepted
Species
Kinorhynchus mainensis (Blake, 1930) · unaccepted (new combination)
Trachydemus mainensis Blake, 1930 · unaccepted (genus name preoccupied)
marine
(of Trachydemus mainensis Blake, 1930) Blake, C. H. (1930). Three new species of worms belonging to the order Echinodera. <em>Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region.</em> 4: 3-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/itempdf/29112 [details] Available for editors 
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Neuhaus, B.; Sánchez Santos, N. (2026). World Kinorhyncha Database. Leiocanthus mainensis (Blake, 1930) Sánchez, Yamasaki, Pardos, Sørensen & Martínez, 2016. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1433391 on 2026-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Trachydemus mainensis Blake, 1930) Blake, C. H. (1930). Three new species of worms belonging to the order Echinodera. <em>Biological Survey of the Mount Desert Region.</em> 4: 3-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/itempdf/29112 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). <em>Cladistics.</em> 32(5): 479-505., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12143 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]new combination reference Sánchez, N.; Yamasaki, H.; Pardos, F.; Sørensen, M. V.; Martínez, A. (2016). Morphology disentangles the systematics of a ubiquitous but elusive meiofaunal group (Kinorhyncha: Pycnophyidae). <em>Cladistics.</em> 32(5): 479-505., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12143 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype (of Trachydemus mainensis Blake, 1930) Private uncatalogued, geounit Buzzards Bay [details]
Syntype (of Trachydemus mainensis Blake, 1930) Private G1, geounit Maine [details]
Topotype (of Trachydemus mainensis Blake, 1930) USNM W30975, W30976, geounit Maine [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Kinorhynchus mainensis (Blake, 1930))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091270) (from synonym Kinorhynchus mainensis (Blake, 1930))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 091270) (from synonym Kinorhynchus mainensis (Blake, 1930))
Unreviewed
Hosted externally, from synonym
