African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Lanice Malmgren, 1866

AphiaID

129697 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:129697)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Lanicini Holthe, 1986

Parent

Lanicini Holthe, 1986

Original name

Lanice Malmgren, 1866

Direct children (2)

Ordering

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Species Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766)
Species Lanice wollebaeki Caullery, 1944

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 379-380 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lanice Malmgren, 1866. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129697 on 2026-01-19

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Lanice Malmgren, 1866. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129697 on 2026-01-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Bellan, Gérard

2008-03-03 06:51:11Z

changed

Decock, Wim

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2011-09-20 01:59:56Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2016-01-28 02:19:35Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

2019-02-26 19:09:14Z

changed

Gil, João

2020-07-17 03:09:42Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

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original description Malmgren, Anders Johan. (1866? vol for 1865). Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. [part three of three]. Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm. 22(5): 355-410, plates XVIII-XXIX., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32339631
page(s): 379-380 [details]

additional source Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. [Book chapter]. Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors

additional source Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series. 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [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]

source of synonymy Jirkov, I.; Leontovich, M. (2017). Review of genera within the Axionice/Pista complex (Polychaeta, Terebellidae), with discussion of the taxonomic definition of other Terebellidae with large lateral lobes. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 97(05): 911-934., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000923
note: synonymy of Lanice and other genera to Axionice was proposed by Jirkov & Leontovich, but has not been implemented here. [details] Available for editors

identification resource Hutchings, Pat A. (2007). New species of deep-sea Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae (Polychaeta) (sedentary species III). Galathea Report. 21: 75-90 [not online as at January 2016]., available online at http://www.zmuc.dk/InverWeb/Galathea/index.html
page(s): 83; note: Table 1 is a tabulation of diagnostic features of all Lanice [details] Available for editors