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Polychaeta taxon details

Onuphis landanaensis Augener, 1918

339447  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339447)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280
page(s): 339-343, text-fig. XXXVI.a-b, plate V figs. 135-138, plate VI fig. 197; note: Augener spells 'landanaënsis' with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]   
Lectotype  ZMH V.8674, geounit Benin  
Lectotype ZMH V.8674, geounit Benin [details]
Note coast of Ouidah (historically Whydah), Benin...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality coast of Ouidah (historically Whydah), Benin (Dahomey), West Africa (lectotype collection site), geolocation a map estimate, 6.3306°, 2.0869° [details]
Type material Lectotype ZMH V.8674 designated from Whydah specimen. Other specimens of Augener syntypes from Nyanga estuary described as a new species by Arias (2016) [details]
Etymology Not stated, but evidently named after one of the West Africa collection sites, Landana in Angola  
Etymology Not stated, but evidently named after one of the West Africa collection sites, Landana in Angola [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Onuphis landanaensis Augener, 1918. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339447 on 2024-04-16
Date
action
by
2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
2016-09-16 01:31:01Z
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original description Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280
page(s): 339-343, text-fig. XXXVI.a-b, plate V figs. 135-138, plate VI fig. 197; note: Augener spells 'landanaënsis' with a diaeresis on the 'e' [details]   

source of synonymy Fauvel, P. (1923). Polychètes errantes. Faune de France. <em>Librairie de la Faculte des Sciences. Paris.</em> 5: 1-488., available online at http://www.faunedefrance.org/
page(s): 415; note: to synonymy under Onuphis emerita Audouin & Milne-Edwards, 1833 [details]   

redescription Arias, Andrés. (2016). <em>Onuphis </em>and <em>Mooreonuphis</em> (Annelida: Onuphidae) from West Africa with the description of three new species and the reinstatement of <em>O. landanaensis</em> Augener, 1918. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4168(3): 481-511., available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4168.3.3
page(s): 501; note: re-validation and lectotype designation [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype ZMH V.8674, geounit Benin [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated, but evidently named after one of the West Africa collection sites, Landana in Angola [details]

Type locality coast of Ouidah (historically Whydah), Benin (Dahomey), West Africa (lectotype collection site), geolocation a map estimate, 6.3306°, 2.0869° [details]

Type material Lectotype ZMH V.8674 designated from Whydah specimen. Other specimens of Augener syntypes from Nyanga estuary described as a new species by Arias (2016) [details]

From other sources
Specimen Zoologische Museum, Hamburg [details]