WoRMS name details
Eunice afra punctata Peters, 1854
224016 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224016)
unaccepted (superseded as subspecies, renamed homonym as full species)
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Type locality contained in Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Indian Ocean, Mozambique
type locality contained in Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Type locality Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details]
Taxonomy Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new...
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959).
Taxonomy Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new name, E. petersi, as it is a junior secondary homonym to E. punctata (Risso), and treated it as valid at species rank. [details]
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959).
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Eunice afra punctata Peters, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224016 on 2024-04-23
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action
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2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
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Garcia, Maria
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taxonomy source
Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 14(1): 59-129.
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomy Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new name, E. petersi, as it is a junior secondary homonym to E. punctata (Risso), and treated it as valid at species rank. [details]From other sources
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Type locality Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details]
