Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Aphroditiformia > Family Polynoidae > Subfamily Lepidastheniinae > Genus Lepidasthenia

Lepidasthenia elegans (Grube, 1840)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

LepidastheniaMalmgren, 1867accepted genus name

Literature

original description

Treadwell, Aaron L. 1941. Eastern Pacific expeditions of the New York Zoological Society. 23. Polychaetous annelids from the west coast of Mexico and Central America. Zoologica, New York, 26: 17-24.

basis of record

Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 214-231

additional source

Day, J.H. (1967). Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. 458 & xxix pp.

additional source

Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta

additional source

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.

additional source

Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188

additional source

Fauvel, P. 1934. Annélides polychètes de Rovigno d'Istria. Thalassia, 1(7): 1-78.

additional source

Fauvel, P. 1923. Polychètes errantes. Faune de France Volume 5. 1-488. Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.

additional source

Hartman, Olga 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23: 628 pp.

source of synonymy

Hartman, O. 1956. Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 109(2): 239-310.

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (33 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelid Collection
GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Fauchald, K. (2014). Lepidasthenia elegans (Grube, 1840). In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2014) World Polychaeta database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130796

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2008-03-26 by Kristian Fauchald

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