WoRMS name details
Malmgrenia purpurea Day, 1960
339704 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:339704)
unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345
page(s): 281-283, fig. 2f-k [details]
page(s): 281-283, fig. 2f-k [details]
Note South Africa
From editor or global species database
Type locality South Africa [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Malmgrenia purpurea Day, 1960. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=339704 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Day, J.H. 1960. The Polychaet [sic] fauna of South Africa. Part 5. Errant species dredged off Cape coasts. Annals of the South African Museum, 45(3): 261-373., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40866345
page(s): 281-283, fig. 2f-k [details]
page(s): 281-283, fig. 2f-k [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1993). Scaled polychaetes (Polynoidae) associated with ophiuroids and other invertebrates and review of species referred to Malmgrenia McIntosh and replaced by Malmgreniella Hartman, with descriptions of new taxa. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 538: 1-92., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/5682 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
