Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -71 meters (-232 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Annelida
()
- Lamarck, 1809
- Segmented Worms
- Class:
Polychaeta
()
- Grube, 1850
- Polychaetes
- Order:
Scolecida
()
- Family:
Maldanidae
()
- Malmgren, 1867
- Subfamily:
Euclymeninae
()
- Genus:
Praxillella
()
- Verrill, 1881
- Specific name:
affinis
- Scientific name: - Praxillella affinis
- Specific name:
affinis
- Genus:
Praxillella
(
- Subfamily:
Euclymeninae
(
- Family:
Maldanidae
(
- Order:
Scolecida
(
- Class:
Polychaeta
(
- Phylum:
Annelida
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Praxillella
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Further Reading
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- A monograph of the British marine annelids. 3 1915 London, The Ray society, 1873/1900-1922/23. url p. , p. 323, p. 329, p. 330.
- Allan Hancock Pacific expeditions. [Reports] Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press. url p. 221, p. 420, p. 91.
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) url p. 188.
- Contributions to a biological survey of Santa Monica Bay, California, by Olga Hartman. A final report submitted to Hyperion Engineers, Inc., by the Geology Department, University of Southern California, September 17, 1956. Los Angeles?1956? url .
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 16.
- The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 103, p. 124.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 15 1968 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 91.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 17, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 23, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Invertebrates
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Zoology
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Joint Nature Conservation Committee - Marine benthic dataset
- commissioned by UKOOA
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
- held by MarLIN.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 220008
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-67573
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 4490920
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 67571
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 504611
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 503.660 based on 381 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Curator for this page: Eriberto de Assis. Date last reviewed: 12/30/1899
