WoRMS name details
Polybranchia foxi Potts, 1928
330857 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330857)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum (unidentifiable fragment)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Potts, Frank A. 1928. Zoological Results of the Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal. Report on the annelids (sedentary polychaetes). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22(5): 693-705.
page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details]
page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details]
Note Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland...
From editor or global species database
Type locality Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland lake, originally brackish, penetrated by the construction of the Suez Canal, and first connected to the (Mediterranean) sea in 1862. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polybranchia foxi Potts, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330857 on 2024-12-08
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Potts, Frank A. 1928. Zoological Results of the Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal. Report on the annelids (sedentary polychaetes). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22(5): 693-705.
page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details]
page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment In Pott's two figures Polybranchia foxi appears to be a posterior fragment, perhaps of a capitellid, although it is very large at the stated 80 mm length. Does not match characters of Spionidae. [details]Type locality Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland lake, originally brackish, penetrated by the construction of the Suez Canal, and first connected to the (Mediterranean) sea in 1862. [details]
