WoRMS name details

Ficopomatus capensis Day, 1961

328032  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:328032)

 unaccepted (transfer of generic attribution)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, John Hemsworth. (1961). The Polychaet [sic] Fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 44(299): 463-560., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1961.tb01623.x [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Note South Africa  
Type locality South Africa [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Ficopomatus capensis Day, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=328032 on 2024-04-18
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2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2009-01-30 09:52:09Z
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2012-10-07 08:42:54Z
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original description Day, John Hemsworth. (1961). The Polychaet [sic] Fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 44(299): 463-560., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1961.tb01623.x [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

taxonomy source Marska, G. A. 2004. J.H. Day's type specimens of Polychaeta (Annelida) in the collection of the South African Museum. Annals of the South African Museum 112(1): 17-38.
page(s): 37 [details]   

source of synonymy Kupriyanova, Elena K., & H.A. ten Hove & E. Nishi, 2012. A taxonomic revision of Pseudochitinopoma Zibrowius, 1969 (Annelida, Serpulidae) with description of two new species. Zootaxa 3597: 57-78., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3507.html [details]   

new combination reference Hove, Harry A. ten and Weerdenburg, J. C. A. 1978. A generic revision of the brackish-water serpulid Ficopomatus Southern 1921 (Polychaeta: Serpulinae), including Mercierella Fauvel 1923, Sphaeropomatus Treadwell 1934, Mercierellopsis Rioja 1945 and Neopomatus Pillai 1960. Biological Bulletin.Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole 154: 96-120.
page(s): 101 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Editor's comment ten Hove and Kupriyanova argue that the species most probably not is a Ficopomatus, but belongs in Chitinopoma [details]

From other sources
Type locality South Africa [details]