WoRMS name details
Cheironotus hexadactylus Costa, 1861
326703 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326703)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (name unused since original description)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Costa, O. G. (1861). Microdoride mediterranea; o, Descrizione de poco ben conosciuti od affatto ignoti viventi minuti e micoscropici del Meditterraneo, pel professore O. G. Costa. Tomo primo. Con tredici tavole. i-xviii, 1-80. Stamperia dell'Iride, Napoli., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47094 [details]
Note Mediterranean Sea. No further location...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Mediterranean Sea. No further location information known [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Cheironotus hexadactylus Costa, 1861. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326703 on 2024-04-23
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original description
Costa, O. G. (1861). Microdoride mediterranea; o, Descrizione de poco ben conosciuti od affatto ignoti viventi minuti e micoscropici del Meditterraneo, pel professore O. G. Costa. Tomo primo. Con tredici tavole. i-xviii, 1-80. Stamperia dell'Iride, Napoli., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47094 [details]
status source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 376; note: listed as doubtfully Polydora [details] Available for editors
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status source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 376; note: listed as doubtfully Polydora [details] Available for editors
[request] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment Cheironotus hexadactylus apppears to have been unused as a name subsequent to its description. It appears to belong to the Polydora-group, but the set of spines figured is on the 7th chaetiger. [details]Type locality Mediterranean Sea. No further location information known [details]
