Marine Species Traits - Branchellion australis Leigh-Sharpe, 1916

WoRMS taxon details

Branchellion australis Leigh-Sharpe, 1916

AphiaID

370606 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370606)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Branchellion Savigny, 1822

Original name

Branchellion australis Leigh-Sharpe, 1916

Synonymised names

Branchellion parkeri Richardson, 1949 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (subjective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

WoRMS (2025). Branchellion australis Leigh-Sharpe, 1916. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370606 on 2025-04-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-11-28 06:40:21Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Branchellion parkeri Richardson, 1949) Richardson, L. R. (1949). Studies on New Zealand Hirudinea. Part II, Branchellion parkeri, a new Ichthyobdellid leech. <em>Zoology publications from Victoria University College, Wellington.</em> 1: 1-11., available online at https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Vic01Zool-t1-body-d2.html
page(s): 5, figures 1-4; note: Wellington New Zealand, on 'dogfish' Mustelus antarcticus [details] Available for editors

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basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

Other

additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Branchellion parkeri Richardson, 1949)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Branchellion parkeri) (from synonym Branchellion parkeri Richardson, 1949)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Branchellion parkeri Richardson, 1949)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record) (from synonym Branchellion parkeri Richardson, 1949)