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Polychaeta name detailsManayunkia africana Monro, 1939
337868 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337868)
unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Species
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Monro, Charles C. A. 1939. On a collection of Polychaeta from near the mouth of the River Congo. Revue de Zoologie et Botanie d'Afrique, Bruxelles, 32(2): 213-225. [details]
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Information from Fitzhugh (1992). Matadi,... From editor or global species database
Type locality Information from Fitzhugh (1992). Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, approximately 150 km upstream from the mouth of the Congo River. The species is described by Monro (1939:220) as living in swift water, forming'' ... incrustations composed of clusters of small intertwining sandy tubules'' on the shells of the freshwater gastropod, Hydrobia plena, as well as on stones. [details]
Taxonomy Bick & Armendáriz (2021: 188) briefly review the history of Manayunkia africana. They state: "This species was only found...
Taxonomy Bick & Armendáriz (2021: 188) briefly review the history of Manayunkia africana. They state: "This species was only found once in freshwater habitats in the Congo and M’pozo Rivers, West Africa, about 150 km upstream from the mouth of the Congo River near the city Matadi. There have been no reported additional records of this species since then. This freshwater fabriciid was collected by Dr. E. Dartevelle and his wife, and was first described as Manayunkia africana by Charles C.A. Monro in 1939. It was found in sandy tubes on mollusc shells, but also in incrustations on stones (Monro 1939). Monro (1939) stated that the material (‘a number of fragments’) was in poor conditions, and an adequate description of all characters was impossible" [...] "According to Hartman (1951), Monroika is believed to resemble Manayunkia because of the possession of simple undivided radioles in a tuft, but differs from Manayunkia in having a radiolar membrane extending for about one third of the radiolar crown length. She considered the presence of this radiolar membrane to be sufficient to separate M. africana from the genus Manayunkia. [... Fitzhugh, 1992] presumed that the radiolar crown could have a construction pattern identical to several Manayunkia species in that the radioles are asymmetrically branched, resulting in pectinated radioles ['...]" [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Manayunkia africana Monro, 1939. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337868 on 2024-09-25
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original description
Monro, Charles C. A. 1939. On a collection of Polychaeta from near the mouth of the River Congo. Revue de Zoologie et Botanie d'Afrique, Bruxelles, 32(2): 213-225. [details]
source of synonymy Jones, Meredith L. (1974). <i>Brandtika asiatica</i> new genus, new species, from Southeastern Asia and a redescription of <i>Monroika africana</i> (Monro) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae). <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 87(20): 217-230., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34672908 [details] Available for editors  [request]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Bick & Armendáriz (2021: 188) briefly review the history of Manayunkia africana. They state: "This species was only found once in freshwater habitats in the Congo and M’pozo Rivers, West Africa, about 150 km upstream from the mouth of the Congo River near the city Matadi. There have been no reported additional records of this species since then. This freshwater fabriciid was collected by Dr. E. Dartevelle and his wife, and was first described as Manayunkia africana by Charles C.A. Monro in 1939. It was found in sandy tubes on mollusc shells, but also in incrustations on stones (Monro 1939). Monro (1939) stated that the material (‘a number of fragments’) was in poor conditions, and an adequate description of all characters was impossible" [...] "According to Hartman (1951), Monroika is believed to resemble Manayunkia because of the possession of simple undivided radioles in a tuft, but differs from Manayunkia in having a radiolar membrane extending for about one third of the radiolar crown length. She considered the presence of this radiolar membrane to be sufficient to separate M. africana from the genus Manayunkia. [... Fitzhugh, 1992] presumed that the radiolar crown could have a construction pattern identical to several Manayunkia species in that the radioles are asymmetrically branched, resulting in pectinated radioles ['...]" [details]Type locality Information from Fitzhugh (1992). Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, approximately 150 km upstream from the mouth of the Congo River. The species is described by Monro (1939:220) as living in swift water, forming'' ... incrustations composed of clusters of small intertwining sandy tubules'' on the shells of the freshwater gastropod, Hydrobia plena, as well as on stones. [details] Unverified
Specimen The Natural History Museum, London [details]
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