MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Cossuridae Day, 1963

WoRMS taxon details

Cossuridae Day, 1963

AphiaID

908 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:908)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Scolecida

Direct children (3)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Genus Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887
Genus Cossurella Hartman, 1976 accepted as Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887 (subjective synonymy)
Genus Heterocossura Wu & Chen, 1977 accepted as Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887 (subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Day, John H. (1963). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Series Zoology. 10(7): 381-445., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2253177
page(s): 426; note: New family [details] Available for editors

[request]

Taxonomic citation

Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Cossuridae Day, 1963. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=908 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2008-03-26 11:36:43Z

changed

Fauchald, Kristian

2010-03-03 00:50:30Z

changed

Read, Geoffrey

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree] [list species]

original description Day, John H. (1963). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 8: New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Series Zoology. 10(7): 381-445., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2253177
page(s): 426; note: New family [details] Available for editors

[request]

taxonomy source Ewing, R. Michael 1987. Review of the genus Cossurella (Polychaeta: Cossuridae) including descriptions of two new species and a key to the species of the world. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 7: 3-10. [details]

taxonomy source Read, Geoffrey B. (2000). Taxonomy and distribution of a new Cossura species (Annelida: Polychaeta: Cossuridae) from New Zealand. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 113(4): 1096-1110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35517577 [details] Available for editors

[request]

taxonomy source Ewing, R. Michael. (1984). Family Cossuridae Day, 1963. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Volume 1. Chapter Pagination: 4.1-4.6, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama.
page(s): 4.1 [details]

additional source 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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

[show lower level...]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cossuridae)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (18 traits)
To ITIS