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Polychaeta name details

Prionospio africana Augener, 1918

338526 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338526)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
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): 402-405, text-fig. LI.a-c, plate VI figs. 162-163 [details] 
Type locality contained in West Africa  
type locality contained in West Africa [details]
Note Atlantic Ocean, western Africa  
Unreviewed
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, western Africa [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus  
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Prionospio africana Augener, 1918. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338526 on 2026-07-16
Date
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2020-12-08 21:39:50Z
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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): 402-405, text-fig. LI.a-c, plate VI figs. 162-163 [details] 

additional source Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801
page(s): 149-150, fig. 57a-b [details] 

source of synonymy Kirkegaard, Jørgen B. (1959). The Polychaeta of West Africa Part I. Sedentary species. <em>Atlantide Report.</em> 5: 7-117.
page(s): 22; note: includes Prionospio africana in the synonymy of Paraprionospio pinnata [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

status source Hartman, Olga. (1965). Catalogue of the polychaetous annelids of the world. Supplement 1960-1965 and index. <em>Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation.</em> 23: 1-197., available online at http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll82/id/19573
page(s): 54; note: quotes Kirkegaard (1959) in referring P. africana to Paraprionospio pinnata [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Taxonomy Moved to different genus [details]

Type locality Atlantic Ocean, western Africa [details]