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Polychaeta name detailsLanice fauvelii Day, 1934
328621 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328621)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)
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marine,
recent only
Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 39(263): 15-82., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x
page(s): 71-73, fig. 14a-d [details] Available for editors  [request]
Holotype NHMUK 1934.1.19.98, geounit Agulhas Bank
Holotype NHMUK 1934.1.19.98, geounit Agulhas Bank [details] From editor or global species database
Type locality Agulhas Bank, no precise location. The Agulhas Bank is the region of continental shelf south of Cape Agulhas, very approximately -34.709, 22.470 [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328621 on 2026-08-24
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Day, J.H. (1934). On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 39(263): 15-82., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1934.tb00259.x
page(s): 71-73, fig. 14a-d [details] Available for editors [request]source of synonymy Tebble, Norman. (1955). The polychaete fauna of the Gold Coast [=Ghana]. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Ser. Zoology.</em> 3: 59-148, 30 text figures., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2243542 page(s): 138; note: Additional record of Loimia medusa Savigny, from off Accra, with Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934 as a synonym, without a justification of the synonymy [details] Available for editors [request] Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NHMUK 1934.1.19.98, geounit Agulhas Bank [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling It is important to note that the double-i spelling, as Lanice fauvelii Day, 1934 is correct. The junior homonym Lanice fauveli Caullery, 1944, has a single-i [details]Type locality Agulhas Bank, no precise location. The Agulhas Bank is the region of continental shelf south of Cape Agulhas, very approximately -34.709, 22.470 [details] |