Chaetopterus pergamentaceus
| Chaetopterus pergamentaceus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Class: | Polychaeta |
| Family: | Chaetopteridae |
| Genus: | Chaetopterus |
| Species: | C. pergamentaceus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chaetopterus pergamentaceus Cuvier, 1830 | |
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Chaetopterus pergamentaceus is a species of parchment worm, a marine polychaete in the family Chaetopteridae.[1]
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
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Chaetopterus pergamentaceus Cuvier, 1830".
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "UF Digital Collections".