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Macrobel taxon details

Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867 
AphiaID: 943

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Annelida > Polychaeta > Aciculata > Phyllodocida > Aphroditiformia
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Family
Parent Aphroditiformia
Synonymised
taxa
  Pisionidae Southern, 1914 (subjective synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Science Series 28:1-188, available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]

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 Genus Pisione Grube, 1857
Genus Sigalion Audouin & Milne Edwards in Cuvier, 1830
Genus Sthenelais Kinberg, 1856
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Feedingtypes  omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:943
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2007-01-18 14:44:44Z  changed  Barnich, Ruth
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z  changed  Fauchald, Kristian
2012-09-19 03:31:54Z  changed  Read, Geoffrey
  
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  Citation: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (2013). Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867. In: Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2013) World Polychaeta database. Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=943 on 2013-05-24