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Polychaeta name details

Protoplacostegus Bush, 1905

411246  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:411246)

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  1. Species Protoplacostegus morchii (McIntosh, 1885) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, indeterminable original specimen?)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Harriman Alaska Expedition.</em> 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22063650
page(s): 179, 226, 287; note: Bush used the accented spelling mörchii. She did NOT use moerchii. [details]   
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Protoplacostegus Bush, 1905. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411246 on 2024-04-19
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original description Bush, K.J. (1904 (1905)). Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. <em>Harriman Alaska Expedition.</em> 12: 169-346, plates XXI-XLIV., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22063650
page(s): 179, 226, 287; note: Bush used the accented spelling mörchii. She did NOT use moerchii. [details]   

status source Zibrowius, H. (1973). Revision of some Serpulidae (Annelida Polychaeta) from abyssal depths in the Atlantic and Pacific, collected by the 'Challenger' and Prince of Monaco Expeditions. <em>Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 24 (9): 427-439., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26497963
page(s): 437 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Editor's comment  Its only species, moerchii, is indeterminable according to Zibrowius 1973; it cannot be a Placostegus by the shape of the uncinus figured (Fig.8) [details]