Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 9 meters (30 feet).Standard Deviation = 139.840 based on 425 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Annelida
()
- Segmented Worms
- Class:
Polychaeta
()
- Polychaetes
- Order:
Canalipalpata
()
- Family:
Alucitoidea
()
- Subfamily:
Ampharetinae
()
- Genus:
Ampharete
()
- Malmgren, 1865
- Specific name:
acutifrons
- (Grube, 1860)
- Scientific name: - Ampharete acutifrons (Grube, 1860)
- Specific name:
acutifrons
- (Grube, 1860)
- Genus:
Ampharete
(
- Subfamily:
Ampharetinae
(
- Family:
Alucitoidea
(
- Order:
Canalipalpata
(
- Class:
Polychaeta
(
- Phylum:
Annelida
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Amphicteis acutifrons Grube, 1860
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Ampharete
There are approximately 23 species in this genus:
A. acutifrons · A. agulhasensis · A. americana · A. arctica · A. baltica · A. brevibranchiata · A. eupalea · A. falcata · A. finmarchica · A. fulcata · A. goesi · A. gracilis · A. grubei · A. johanseni · A. kerguelensis · A. labrops · A. lindstroemi · A. longipaleolata · A. parvidentata · A. petersenae · A. reducta · A. setosa · A. vega
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Allan Hancock Pacific expeditions. [Reports] Los Angeles, University of Southern California Press. ENG url p. 127, p. 39.
- Environmental benchmark studies in Casco Bay, Portland Harbor, Maine, April 1980 / Peter F. Larsen, Anne C. Johnson, and Lee F. Doggett. Woods Hole, Mass.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Center; 1983. ENG url p. 119, p. 120, p. 126, p. 127, p. 136, p. 138, p. 144, p. 159, p. 162, p. 169.
- Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. ENG url p. 115.
- NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; ENG url p. 4, p. 6, p. 9.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 148, p. 682.
- Results of the third joint US-USSR Bering & Chukchi Seas expedition (BERPAC): Summer 1988 / John F. Turner, [et al.]; P.A. Nagel, editor. Washington, DC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992. ENG url p. 256.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 17, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 18 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Atlantic Reference Centre
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Bay of Fundy Species List
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Benthic fauna in the Pechora Sea
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Biogeography Scheldt Estuary
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Gwaii Haanas Invertebrates
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Histroical benthic dredge samples from the southern baltic and the North Sea
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Macrobel: Long term trends in the macrobenthos of the Belgian Continental Shelf
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, N3 data of Kiel bay
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, NBI
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Polish Arctic Marine Programme
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- NLBIF, Zoological Museum Amsterdam - Noordzee
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Invertebrates
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2551882
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-67735
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13794928
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 67735
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 504726
