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Polychaeta taxon details

Lepidonotus natalensis Day, 1951

338933  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:338933)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, John H. (1951). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 1. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of Natal and Mosambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-67. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
Type locality contained in KwaZulu-Natal  
type locality contained in KwaZulu-Natal [details]
Note Indian Ocean, Natal, South Africa  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Indian Ocean, Natal, South Africa [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Lepidonotus natalensis Day, 1951. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=338933 on 2024-03-28
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2008-03-18 12:55:09Z
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2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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original description Day, John H. (1951). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 1. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of Natal and Mosambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-67. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

redescription De Assis, José Eriberto; De Brito, Rafael Justino; Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey; De Souza, José Roberto Botelho. (2015). A catalogue of the scaleworm genus Lepidonotus (Polynoidae, Polychaeta) from South America, with two new records for Brazilian waters. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 533: 63-98., available online at http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6184
page(s): 75-78, figures 4, 5; note: redescription and range extension to South America [details]   

status source Day, J.H. (1967). A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. British Museum (Natural History). London. vol 1 & vol 2, 1-878., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596
page(s): 82, figures 1.14a-e; note: treated as synonym of Lepidonotus tenuisetosus (Gravier, 1902) [details]   

status source Wehe, Thomas. (2006). Revision of the scale worms (Polychaeta:Aphroditoidea) occurring in the seas surrounding the Arabian Peninsula. Part I: Polynoidae. <i>Fauna of Arabia</i>. 22: 23–197.
page(s): 101- , figures 21a-j; note: removed from synonymy with Lepidonotus tenuisetosus (Gravier, 1902) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Specimen The Natural History Museum, London [details]

Type locality Indian Ocean, Natal, South Africa [details]