Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Halosydnella galapagensis (Monro, 1928)

poliquetos, Polychaetes

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Annelida

Class
Polychaeta

Order
Phyllodocida

Suborder
Aphroditiformia

Superfamily
Aphroditoidea

Family
Polynoidae

Genus
Halosydnella

Species
galapagensis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Halosydna galapagensis Monro, 1928; Halosydna galapaginas -misspelling of intended H. galapagensis (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

References

  • Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
  • Monro, C.C.A. (1928) Polychaeta of the families Polynoidae and Acoetidae from the vicinity of the Panama Canal, collected by Dr. C. Crossland and Dr. Th. Mortensen. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London, 36: 553-576.
  • Hartman, O. (1938) The types of the polychaete worms of the families Polynoidae and Polyodontidae in the United States National Museum and the description of a new genus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 86(3046): 107-134.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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