WoRMS name details
Skardaria Wesenberg-Lund, 1951
326028 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326028)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Genus
Skardaria fragmentata Wesenberg-Lund, 1951 accepted as Apistobranchus fragmentata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1951) (type by monotypy)
- Species Skardaria fragmentata Wesenberg-Lund, 1951 accepted as Apistobranchus fragmentata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1951) (superseded original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Wesenberg-Lund, Elise 1951. Polychaeta. The Zoology of Iceland, 2(19): 1-182.
page(s): 59-65 [details]
page(s): 59-65 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Skardaria Wesenberg-Lund, 1951. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326028 on 2025-11-12
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Nomenclature
original description
Wesenberg-Lund, Elise 1951. Polychaeta. The Zoology of Iceland, 2(19): 1-182.
page(s): 59-65 [details]
page(s): 59-65 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746
page(s): 295; note: to Apistobranchus [details]
page(s): 295; note: to Apistobranchus [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Pettibone (1963) placed both Ethocles typicus and Skardaria fragmentata as Apistobranchus tullbergi. Thus the genera were synonyms of Apistobranchus. Hartman (1965) also treated the genera as synonyms but regarded the species as valid [details]
