WoRMS name details
Sigalion capense Day, 1960
338369 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338369)
unaccepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345
page(s): 291-293, fig. 4a-f [details]
page(s): 291-293, fig. 4a-f [details]
Note South Africa
From editor or global species database
Type locality South Africa [details]
Taxonomy Corrected spelling
Taxonomy Corrected spelling [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Sigalion capense Day, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338369 on 2026-08-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345
page(s): 291-293, fig. 4a-f [details]
page(s): 291-293, fig. 4a-f [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Mackie, Andrew S. Y.; Chambers, Susan J. (1990). Revision of the type species of Sigalion, Thalenessa and Eusigalion (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 19(1): 39-56., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1990.tb00239.x [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
