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Typhloscolex Busch, 1851 
AphiaID: 129722

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Annelida (Phylum) > Polychaeta (Class) > Aciculata (Subclass) > Phyllodocida (Order) > Phyllodocida incertae sedis (Suborder) > Typhloscolecidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Typhloscolecidae Uljanin, 1878
Sources  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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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

additional source: Fauchald, Kristian (2007). World Register of Polychaeta, available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta [details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Typhloscolex grandis Støp-Bowitz, 1948
Species Typhloscolex leuckarti Reibisch, 1895
Species Typhloscolex muelleri Busch, 1851
Species Typhloscolex phyllodes Reibisch, 1895
Species Typhloscolex phylloides Reibich, 1895
Species Typhloscolex reibischi Friedrich, 1950
Species Typhloscolex robusta Friedrich, 1950

Species Typhloscolex paucichaeta (Treadwell, 1943) accepted as Sagitella kowalewskii Wagner, 1872
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Type species: Type species T. muelleri Busch 1851 in Fauchald, 1977<246>. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129722
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Bellan, Gérard
2006-09-28 06:51:36Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
  
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  Citation: Fauchald, K.; Bellan, G. (2013). Typhloscolex Busch, 1851. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129722 on 2013-05-18
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