WoRMS name details
Leiochone tropica Mesnil & Fauvel, 1939
338751 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338751)
uncertain > nomen dubium (indeterminable to species?)
Species
Clymenura tropica (Mesnil & Fauvel, 1939) · unaccepted (supeseded recombination and...)
supeseded recombination and otherwise indeterminable
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Mesnil, F. and Fauvel, P. 1939. Polychètes sédentaires de l'expédition dus Siboga. Maldanidae, Cirratulidae, Capitellidae, Sabellidae et Serpulidae. Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 24(2): 1-42. [details]
Note Indonesia
Type locality Indonesia [details]
Taxonomy Inadequate description from broken specimen. Holotype untraced.
Taxonomy Inadequate description from broken specimen. Holotype untraced. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Leiochone tropica Mesnil & Fauvel, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338751 on 2026-01-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Mesnil, F. and Fauvel, P. 1939. Polychètes sédentaires de l'expédition dus Siboga. Maldanidae, Cirratulidae, Capitellidae, Sabellidae et Serpulidae. Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 24(2): 1-42. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. [details] Available for editors 
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status source Read, Geoffrey B. (2011). A new Clymenura (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the intertidal of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, with a reassessment of Leiochone Grube, 1868 and Clymenura Verrill, 1900. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2934: 39-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2934.html [details]
[request]status source Read, Geoffrey B. (2011). A new Clymenura (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) from the intertidal of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, with a reassessment of Leiochone Grube, 1868 and Clymenura Verrill, 1900. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2934: 39-52., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2011/2934.html [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
