WoRMS name details

Polybranchia foxi Potts, 1928

330857  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:330857)

uncertain > taxon inquirendum (unidentifiable fragment)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Potts, Frank A. 1928. Zoological Results of the Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal. Report on the annelids (sedentary polychaetes). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22(5): 693-705.
page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details] 
Note Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland...  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland lake, originally brackish, penetrated by the construction of the Suez Canal, and first connected to the (Mediterranean) sea in 1862. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Polybranchia foxi Potts, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=330857 on 2024-11-09
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2008-03-17 10:44:16Z
created
2008-03-26 11:36:43Z
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2013-05-06 05:20:56Z
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2023-11-26 16:48:14Z
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original description Potts, Frank A. 1928. Zoological Results of the Cambridge expedition to the Suez Canal. Report on the annelids (sedentary polychaetes). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 22(5): 693-705.
page(s): 693-694, figs. 210-211 [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Editor's comment In Pott's two figures Polybranchia foxi appears to be a posterior fragment, perhaps of a capitellid, although it is very large at the stated 80 mm length. Does not match characters of Spionidae.  [details]

Type locality Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt. An inland lake, originally brackish, penetrated by the construction of the Suez Canal, and first connected to the (Mediterranean) sea in 1862. [details]