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Macellicephala affinis Fauvel, 1914

329095 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:329095)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Annelida
  4. Polychaeta
  5. Errantia
  6. Phyllodocida
  7. Aphroditiformia
  8. Polynoidae
  9. Macellicephalinae
  10. Macellicephalini
  11. Macellicephala
  12. Macellicephala affinis
 unaccepted (superseded original combination)
Bathyfauvelia affinis (Fauvel, 1914)
Species
Bathyfauvelia Pettibone, 1976
Macellicephala McIntosh, 1885
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Fauvel, P. 1914. Aphroditiens pélagique des Campagnes de l'Hirondelle, de la Princesse-Alice, et de l'Hirondelle II. Note préliminaire. Bulletin de l'Institute océanographique, 287: 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45983413
page(s): 6-8, figs. 3-4 [details] 
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Macellicephala affinis Fauvel, 1914. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=329095 on 2026-08-05
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Macellicephala affinis Fauvel, 1914. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=329095 on 2026-08-05
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2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
Fauchald, Kristian
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
changed
Fauchald, Kristian
2020-11-24 11:30:19Z
changed
Wilson, Robin
2025-04-28 22:48:11Z
changed
Gil, João

original description Fauvel, P. 1914. Aphroditiens pélagique des Campagnes de l'Hirondelle, de la Princesse-Alice, et de l'Hirondelle II. Note préliminaire. Bulletin de l'Institute océanographique, 287: 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45983413
page(s): 6-8, figs. 3-4 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Levenstein, R. Ya. (1971). Polychaeta of the genus Macellicephala and Macellicephaloides (Aphroditidae) from the Pacific Ocean. Trudy Instituta Okeanologia, Akademia nauk SSSR. <em>Ser. Transactions of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 92 (Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench.</em> 18-35. [details] 

additional source Uschakov, P. V. (1957). [On the polychaete worms fauna (Polychaeta) of the Arctic and Antarctic]. K faune mnogoshchetinkovikh chervei (Polychaeta) Arkitki i Antarktiki. Zoologicheskii zhurnal. 36(11): 1659-1672.
page(s): 1663, fig. 3 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Jirkov, I.A. (2001). [Polychaeta of the Arctic Ocean] (In Russian) Polikhety severnogo Ledovitogo Okeana. Yanus-K Press, Moscow, 632 pp., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259865957_Jirkov_2001_Polychaeta_of_the_North_Polar_Basin
page(s): 131, textfigs 1-4; note: alternative representation: as Macellicephala affinis [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Levenstein, R. Ya. (1971). Polychaeta of the genus Macellicephala and Macellicephaloides (Aphroditidae) from the Pacific Ocean. Trudy Instituta Okeanologia, Akademia nauk SSSR. <em>Ser. Transactions of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 92 (Fauna of the Kurile-Kamchatka Trench.</em> 18-35. [details] 

source of synonymy Pettibone, Marian H. (1976). Revision of the genus <i>Macellicephala</i> McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 229: 1-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.229
page(s): 35-38, figures 21, 22 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

status source Bonifácio, Paulo; Menot, Lénaïck. (2018). New genera and species from the Equatorial Pacific provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea Polynoidae (Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 185(3): 555-635 [published online 14 November 2018; printed publication 27 February 2019]., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/185/3/555/5181329
page(s): 18 (figure 3), 31, 34; note: confirms placement in Bathyfauvelia [details] Available for editors  PDF available
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