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Grania americana Kennedy 1966

  • 1. Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Paraná, Av. Beira Mar, s / n, 83255 - 976 Pontal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 3 FE 88982 - 3151 - 43 AF-BC 1 C- 5 C 8 F 863729 B 7 & Corresponding author: aprantoni @ gmail. com
  • 2. Center for Marine Studies, Federal University of Paraná, Av. Beira Mar, s / n, 83255 - 976 Pontal do Paraná, Paraná, Brazil. & Email: lana @ ufpr. br & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: B 5 A 74 B 14 - A 681 - 4 D 2 A- 8248 - 67 DE 8 FCE 9 F 7 B
  • 3. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, SE- 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden. & Email: christer. erseus @ bioenv. gu. se & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: D 98 F 606 A-B 273 - 4 F 50 - 95 F 5 - C 35 F 17 B 12 C 85

Description

7. Grania americana Kennedy, 1966

Grania americana Kennedy, 1966: 404–405, fig. 3.

Grania macrochaeta americana — Lasserre 1967: 78–280.

Grania americana – Erséus 1974: 90 –93, tab. 1. — Healy & Coates 1999: 111, 114, tab. 1. — Locke & Coates 1999: 598 –623, figs 16–20 (redescription); 2000: 619 –620, 625 –626, figs 4a, 5. — Locke 2000: 83 –93, figs 1–14.

Grania americana – Erséus & Lasserre 1976: p. 123 (nomen dubium, see Erséus & Lasserre 1976; Locke & Coates 1999).

Type material

Holotype

BAHAMAS: North Bimini (USNM 33005).

Paratype

BAHAMAS: North Bimini (USNM 33039).

Other material

BAHAMAS: Pearl Island (BMAZ 1999 180 009).

BERMUDA: Ferry Reach (USNM 185957).

UNITED STATES: Hutchinson Island (USNM 185958).

BELIZE: Carrie Bow Cay (USNM 185959–185960).

Type locality

BAHAMAS: North Bimini.

Habitat

Intertidal, subtidal to 10 m, fine to coarse sand.

Distribution

Belize, Bermuda, Bahamas, Florida.

Notes

Published as part of Prantoni, Alessandro, Lana, Paulo C. & Erséus, Christer, 2017, Global checklist of species of Grania (Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) with remarks on their geographic distribution, pp. 1-44 in European Journal of Taxonomy 391 on pages 7-8, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.391, http://zenodo.org/record/3838685

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Family
Enchytraeidae
Genus
Grania
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
USNM 33005
Order
Enchytraeida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Kennedy
Species
americana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Grania americana Kennedy, 1966 sec. Prantoni, Lana & Erséus, 2017

References

  • Kennedy C. 1966. A taxonomic revision of the genus Grania (Oligochaeta: Enchytraeidae). Journal of Zoology 148: 399 - 407. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1469 - 7998.1966. tb 02959. x
  • Lasserre P. 1967. Oligochetes marins des cotes de France. II. Roscoff, Penpoull, etangs saumatres de Concarneau: systematique, ecologie. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 8: 273 - 293.
  • Erseus C. 1974. Grania pusilla sp. n. (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae) from the west coasts of Norway and Sweden with some taxonomic notes on the genus Grania. Sarsia 56: 87 - 94. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00364827.1974.10411264
  • Healy B. & Coates K. A. 1999. Finding enchytraeid oligochaetes (Clitellata) in hot climates: species occurrence on the shores of Bermuda. Hydrobiologia 406: 111 - 117. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 94 - 011 - 4207 - 6 _ 11
  • Locke J. M. & Coates K. A. 1999. Redescriptions of Grania americana, G. bermudensis and descriptions of two new species of Grania (Annelida: Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) from Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 112: 598 - 623.
  • Locke J. M. 2000. Ultrastructure of the statocyst of the marine enchytraeid Grania americana (Annelida: Clitellata). Invertebrate Biology 119: 83 - 93. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1744 - 7410.2000. tb 00176. x
  • Erseus C. & Lasserre P. 1976. Taxonomic status and geographic variation of the marine enchytraeid genus Grania Southern (Oligochaeta). Zoologica Scripta 5: 121 - 132. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1976. tb 00689. x