Sternaspis scutata

Familia: Sternaspidae
Genus: Sternaspis
Species:

Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817) Claparède, 1869

Type locality: (Neotype) Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea.

Original combination: Thalassema scutatus Ranzani, 1817

Neotype: RBCM 005-140-001, Turkey, Izmar Bay, 38°30'00"N, 26°50'00"E, 33 m, 11-VII-2000.

Paraneotypes: RBCM 005-140-002, 9 specimens, same data as neotype.

• Thalassema scutatus Ranzani, 1817

• Claparède, É. 1869. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Seconde Partie. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève. 20(1): 1-225. BHL Reference page.  [see page 95, recombination reference]
• Ranzani, C. 1817. Descrizione di una nuova specie del genere Thalassema. Opuscoli Scientifici, Bologna. 1: 112-116, Plate 4. Google Books [Italian]. Isis, oder, Encyclopädische Zeitung von Oken. Bd.1: 1457–1461. BHL [transl. German with additional comments in 1817] Reference page.  [original description of Thalassema scutatus]
• Sendall, K.; Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. 2013: Revision of Sternaspis Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta, Sternaspidae). ZooKeys 286: 1-74. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.286.4438 Reference page.  [description and neotype designation]

• Drennan, R., Wiklund, H., Rouse, G.W., Georgieva, M.N., Wu, X.-W., Kobayashi, G., Yoshino, K., Glover, A.G. 2019. Taxonomy and phylogeny of mud owls (Annelida: Sternaspidae), including a new synonymy and new records from the Southern Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean: challenges in morphological delimitation. Marine Biodiversity. 49: 2659–2697. DOI: 10.1007/s12526-019-00998-0 Reference page. 

• Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Sternaspis scutata (Ranzani, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131242 on 2020-09-26

• BHL bibliography
• Sternaspis scutata – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Sternaspis scutata.
• ION

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