WoRMS taxon details
Pisionidens Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1943
324905 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:324905)
accepted
Genus
Pisionella indica Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1940 accepted as Pisionidens indica (Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1940) (type by monotypy)
Fauveliella Tebble, 1953 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Pisionella Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1940 · unaccepted (replaced junior homonym;...)
replaced junior homonym; preoccupied by Hartman, 1939 [Annelida]
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Aiyar, R. Gopala; Alikunhi, K.H. (1943). Change of the generic name <i>Pisionella</i> Aiyar and Alikunhi, 1940, into <i>Pisionidens</i> (Polychaeta). <em>Current Science, Bangalore.</em> 12(4): 120., available online at https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/12/04/0120.pdf
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page(s): 120 [details] Available for editors
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Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Pisionidens Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1943. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324905 on 2026-08-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Aiyar, R. Gopala; Alikunhi, K.H. (1943). Change of the generic name <i>Pisionella</i> Aiyar and Alikunhi, 1940, into <i>Pisionidens</i> (Polychaeta). <em>Current Science, Bangalore.</em> 12(4): 120., available online at https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/12/04/0120.pdf
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original description (of Fauveliella Tebble, 1953) Tebble, Norman. (1953). On a new and aberrant marine annelid from Natal, South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 12. 6(72): 938-944, plate XXIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935308654511
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original description (of Pisionella Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1940) Aiyar, R. Gopala; Alikunhi, K.H. (1940). On a new pisionid from the sandy beach, Madras. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 42(1): 89-107., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v42/i1/1940/162453
page(s): 106 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 120 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Fauveliella Tebble, 1953) Tebble, Norman. (1953). On a new and aberrant marine annelid from Natal, South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 12. 6(72): 938-944, plate XXIII., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222935308654511
page(s): 938 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Pisionella Aiyar & Alikunhi, 1940) Aiyar, R. Gopala; Alikunhi, K.H. (1940). On a new pisionid from the sandy beach, Madras. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 42(1): 89-107., available online at https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v42/i1/1940/162453
page(s): 106 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource
Petersen, H. Cecilie B.; Gonzalez, Brett C.; Martínez, Alejandro; Worsaae, Katrine. (2016). New species of <em>Pisionidens </em>(Sigalionidae, Annelida) from Akumal, México. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4136(1): 165-173., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4136.1.8
note: contains table of species of Pisionidens [details]
note: contains table of species of Pisionidens [details]
From editor or global species database
Classification Replacement name. Formerly in Pisionidae. [details]
