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Polychaeta name details

Paraonis lyra capensis Day, 1955

933220  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:933220)

 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, J. H. (1955). The Polychaeta of South Africa. Part 3. Sedentary species from Cape shores and estuaries. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 42(287): 407-452., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb02216.x
page(s): 417 [details]   
Note Knysna Estuary, Western Cape Province, South...  
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Type locality Knysna Estuary, Western Cape Province, South Africa, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate -34.072°, 23.059°), intertidal, near the low-tide mark, surface of sandy mud. [details]
Depth range Intertidal.  
Depth range Intertidal. [details]

Distribution Indian coast of South Africa: Knysna Estuary (Western Cape Province).  
Distribution Indian coast of South Africa: Knysna Estuary (Western Cape Province). [details]

Etymology Not stated, but the subspecific epithet refers presumably to the type locality of the species, the former Cape Province...  
Etymology Not stated, but the subspecific epithet refers presumably to the type locality of the species, the former Cape Province (South Africa). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta Database. Paraonis lyra capensis Day, 1955. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=933220 on 2024-04-24
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original description Day, J. H. (1955). The Polychaeta of South Africa. Part 3. Sedentary species from Cape shores and estuaries. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology.</em> 42(287): 407-452., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1955.tb02216.x
page(s): 417 [details]   

source of synonymy Strelzov, V.E. (1973). МНОГОЩЕТИНКОВЫЕ ЧЕРВИ семейства Paraonidae Cerruti, 1909 [Polychaete worms of the family Paraonidae Cerruti, 1909 (Polychaeta, Sedentaria)]. Akademia Nauk. Moscow. 1-170., available online at http://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/school/books/streltsov1973_paraonidae.pdf
page(s): 114-116, figs. 15.4, 48; note: with Cirrophorus neapolitanus (Cerruti, 1909) [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype NHMUK 1961.16.37.45, geounit Knysna Estuary [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]

Distribution Indian coast of South Africa: Knysna Estuary (Western Cape Province). [details]

Etymology Not stated, but the subspecific epithet refers presumably to the type locality of the species, the former Cape Province (South Africa). [details]

Habitat Surface of sandy mud, near the low-tide mark. [details]

Synonymy The subspecies was synonymised with Cirrophorus neapolitanus (Cerruti, 1909) by Strelzov (1973: 114-116), but the synonymy was not accepted by subsequent authors. [details]

Type locality Knysna Estuary, Western Cape Province, South Africa, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate -34.072°, 23.059°), intertidal, near the low-tide mark, surface of sandy mud. [details]