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Polychaeta taxon details

Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914

129230  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129230)

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Genus
Mesochaetopterus taylori Potts, 1914 (type by subsequent designation)
Ranzania Claparède, 1870 · unaccepted (junior homonym)
Ranzanides Chamberlin, 1919 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Sasekumaria Rullier, 1976 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)

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Potts, Frank A. (1914). Polychaeta from the N.E. Pacific: The Chaetopteridae. With an account of the phenomenon of asexual reproduction in <i>Phyllochaetopterus</i> and the description of two new species of Chaetopteridae from the Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 84(4): 955-994, plates I-VI., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31856337
page(s): 957 [details]   
Note Type species M. taylori Potts 1914, presumably...  
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Type species Type species M. taylori Potts 1914, presumably designated in the Hartman Catalogue. Hartman used page priority. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129230 on 2024-03-29
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2006-09-25 06:54:45Z
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Martinez, Olga
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2018-06-24 05:13:02Z
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original description Potts, Frank A. (1914). Polychaeta from the N.E. Pacific: The Chaetopteridae. With an account of the phenomenon of asexual reproduction in <i>Phyllochaetopterus</i> and the description of two new species of Chaetopteridae from the Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 84(4): 955-994, plates I-VI., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31856337
page(s): 957 [details]   

original description  (of Sasekumaria Rullier, 1976) Rullier, François. (1976). Description d'un nouveau genre et d'une nouvelle espèce de Chaetopteridae <i>Sasekumaria selangora</i> (Annélides Polychètes) de Malaisie. <em>Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 101(2): 199-202. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

original description  (of Ranzania Claparède, 1870) 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): 125 (= 489) [details]   

original description  (of Ranzanides Chamberlin, 1919) Chamberlin, Ralph V. (1919). The Annelida Polychaeta [Albatross Expeditions]. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 48: 1-514., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/memoirsofmuseumo4801harv
page(s): 365 [details]   

basis of record Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]   

additional source Day, J. H. (1967). [Sedentaria] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 2. Sedentaria. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. 459–842., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596  [details]   

additional source Nishi, Eijiroh. (1999). Redescription of Mesochaetopterus selangolus [sic] (Polychaeta: Chaetopteridae), based on type specimens from Morib Beach, Malaysia. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 53(1): 24-36., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1893 [details]   

identification resource Martin, Daniel; Mecca, Marika; Meca, Miguel A.; van Moorsel, Godfried; Romano, Chiara. (2022). Citizen science and integrative taxonomy reveal a great diversity within Caribbean Chaetopteridae (Annelida), with the description of one new species. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 36(7): 581., available online at https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS21081
page(s): 600, table 2.; note: table of characters of Mesochaetopterus species similar to Mesochaetopterus stinapa Martin, Mecca, Meca, van Moorsel & Romano, 2022 and M. xerecus Petersen & Fanta, 1969 from Brazil [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Diagnosis Mesochaetopterus Potts, 1914: Diagnosis [Modified after Britayev & Martin (2019), Moore et al 2017]
Chaetopteridae with long peristomial palps and 3 distinct body regions. Prostomium usually indistinct. Tagma A lacking separate notopodial cirri on A1, with 9 A chaetigers (or up to 12 chaetigers), with lanceolate notochaetae, with multiple straight knobbed spines (cutting chaetae) on chaetiger 4. Tagma B most often with 2 B chaetigers (or up to 25 chaetigers) and 2 or more cupules, aliform notopodia may be present, notopodia achaetigerous, undivided, neuropodia with unicini. Tagma C with numerous segments with pointed achaetigerous notopodia, with neuropodia with pectinate uncini. Tube blind, not branched, with 1 surface opening, inner tube walls of parchment-like layered secretions, sand covered on exterior.
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Type species Type species M. taylori Potts 1914, presumably designated in the Hartman Catalogue. Hartman used page priority. [details]
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Japanese クサビフグ [from synonym]  [details]