Galapagos Species Database

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Palola siciliensis (Grube, 1840)

poliquetos, Polychaetes

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Annelida

Class
Polychaeta

Order
Eunicida

Family
Eunicidae

Genus
Palola

Species
siciliensis

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Eunice (Palola) siciliensis Grube, 1840, Eunice adriatica Schmarda, 1861, Eunice siciliensis Grube, 1840, Eunice taenia Claparède, 1864, Palolo siciliensis (Grube, 1840) (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.
  • 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.
  • Westheide, W. (1977) Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos XVIII. Nereidae, Eunicidae, Dorvilleidae (Polychaeta). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens 63: 1-40.

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