WoRMS name details
Asterope Claparède, 1870
325711 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325711)
unaccepted
Genus
Alciopa candida Delle Chiaje, 1841 accepted as Torrea candida (Delle Chiaje, 1841) (type by monotypy)
- Species Asterope candida (Delle Chiaje, 1841) accepted as Torrea candida (Delle Chiaje, 1841) (superseded recombination|subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031
page(s): 471-472 [details]
page(s): 471-472 [details]
Etymology Asterope is one of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleion in the Greek mythology.
Etymology Asterope is one of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleion in the Greek mythology. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Asterope Claparède, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325711 on 2024-09-21
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Claparède, Édouard. (1870). Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Supplément. <em>Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 20(2): 365-542 [separate pagination at page top, continuous pagination at bottom]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2094031
page(s): 471-472 [details]
page(s): 471-472 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis "Je place, dans ce genre, les espèces dont les pieds n'ont point d'appendice cirriforme terminal, et dont la trompe est armée à l'extrémité de denticles durs (vraisemblablement calcaires)." (Claparède, 1870: 471-472). [details]Etymology Asterope is one of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleion in the Greek mythology. [details]