Chaetopterus pergamentaceus

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Chaetopterus pergamentaceus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Family: Chaetopteridae
Genus: Chaetopterus
Species:
C. pergamentaceus
Binomial name
Chaetopterus pergamentaceus
Cuvier, 1830
Synonyms
  • C. insignis Baird, 1864
  • C. valencinii Quatrefages, 1866

Chaetopterus pergamentaceus is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae. [1]

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Taxonomy

Chaetopterus pergamentaceus was formerly synonymized with Chaetopterus variopedatus, but Moore et al. (2017) and Moore (2019) revalidated this species based on morphological and phylogenetic analysis. [2] [3]

Distribution and biology

Chaetopterus pergamentaceus occurs in the intertidal and littoral zone in the North Atlantic. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Chaetopterus pergamentaceus Cuvier, 1830".
  2. ↑ Moore, Jenna M.; Nishi, Eijiroh; Rouse, Greg W. (2017). "Phylogenetic analyses of Chaetopteridae (Annelida)". Zoologica Scripta. 46 (5): 596–610. doi:10.1111/zsc.12238.
  3. 1 2 "UF Digital Collections".
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