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Polychaeta name detailsEunice afra punctata Peters, 1854
224016 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224016)
unaccepted (superseded as subspecies, renamed homonym as full species)
Subspecies
marine,
recent only
Not documented
Taxonomy Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new...
Taxonomy Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new name, E. petersi, as it is a junior secondary homonym to E. punctata (Risso), and treated it as valid at species rank. [details] Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959).
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Eunice afra punctata Peters, 1854. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224016 on 2026-07-20
Date action by 2000-09-28 07:24:50Z changed Garcia, Maria
taxonomy source
Day, John H. (1957). The Polychaet Fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species and records from Natal and Moçambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 14(1): 59-129.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Miura, Tomoyuki. (1986). Japanese polychaetes of the genera Eunice and Euniphysa: Taxonomy and branchial distribution patterns. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 31(3): 269-325., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2433/176125 page(s): 275, fig. 4 [details] Available for editors [request] Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomy Day (1957) placed E. punctata Peters as subspecies of E. afra Peters, but Fauchald (1992) gave E. punctata Peters a new name, E. petersi, as it is a junior secondary homonym to E. punctata (Risso), and treated it as valid at species rank. [details]Unreviewed
Distribution Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958).Habitat: rock (Kalk, 1959). [details] Type locality Indian Ocean, Mozambique [details] |