Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Annelida > Class Polychaeta > Subclass Errantia > Order Phyllodocida > Suborder Nereidiformia > Family Nereididae > Subfamily Nereidinae

Alitta Kinberg, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Alitta grandis (Stimpson, 1853)
Alitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847)
Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835)

Literature

original description

Kinberg, J. G. H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm 22(2): 167-179.

additional source

Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta

redescription

Bakken, Torkild and Wilson, Robin S. 2005. Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths. Zoologica Scripta, 34(5):507-547

redescription

Khlebovich, V.V. 1996. [Fauna of Russia and neighbouring countries. Polychaetous annelids. Volume III. Polychaetes of the family Nereididae of the Russian Seas and the adjacent waters]. Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, n.s. no. 140, Nauka Publishing House 222 pp.

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Citation

Read, G.; Glasby, C. (2014). Alitta Kinberg, 1865. 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:234848

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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

2011-05-16 by Geoffrey Read

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