WoRMS name details
original description
(of Alcandra robusta Kinberg, 1866) Kinberg, J. G. H. (1866). Annulata Nova. Continuatio. [various errantia & sedentaria]. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 22(4): 239-258., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339515 page(s): 251 [details]
basis of record
Blake, James A. (2000). A new genus and species of polychaete worm (Family Orbiniidae) from methane seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, with a review of the systematics and phylogenetic interrelationships of the genera of Orbiniidae. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 41(4): 435-450., available online at http://application.sb-roscoff.fr/cbm/ note: No mention of Scoloplos (Leodamas) robustus (Kinberg, 1866) or Alcandra but Leodamas treated as full genus rank [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph]., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4218.1.1/25653 page(s): 50, 52; note: discusses Alcandra robusta only specimen in context of Leodamas. & places it as incertae sedis [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Status The holotype is indeterminable (Hartman 1957, Blake 2017), therefore the original monotypic genus Alcandra and the species, if regarded as belonging in Leodamas are taxon inquirendum, and cannot be integrated into orbiniid taxonomy. [details]
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