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Alitta
Sign in to saveAlitta is a genus of marine annelids in Nereididae family (commonly known as sandworms or ragworms). There are three recognised species within the genus, Alitta grandis (Stimpson, 1853), Alitta succinea (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) and Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835). Alitta brandti Malmgren, 1865 was originally considered part of the genus, but is now accepted as Neanthes brandti (Malmgren, 1865).
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassPolychaeta
- OrderPhyllodocida
- FamilyNereididae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 51
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Nereididae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Nereididae
- Image
- Nereis virens.jpg
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- Alitta
- taxon name
- Alitta
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Alitta
- taxon author citation
- Kinberg, 1866
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Alitta is a genus of marine annelids in Nereididae family (commonly known as sandworms or ragworms). There are three recognised species within the genus, Alitta grandis (Stimpson, 1853), Alitta succinea (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) and Alitta virens (M. Sars, 1835). Alitta brandti Malmgren, 1865 was originally considered part of the genus, but is now accepted as Neanthes brandti (Malmgren, 1865).
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alitta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.