Galapagos Species Database
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Palola siciliensis
poliquetos, Polychaetes
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
- 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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