Lepidonotus hupferi Augener, 1918

De Assis, Jose Eriberto, de Brito, Rafael Justino, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey & de Souza, Jose Roberto Botelho, 2015, A catalogue of the scaleworm genus Lepidonotus (Polynoidae, Polychaeta) from South America, with two new records for Brazilian waters, ZooKeys 533, pp. 63-98 : 68

9. Lepidonotus hupferi Augener, 1918

Lepidonotus hupferi Augener, 1918: 133-136, pl. 2: figs 7-11 (Gold Coast, western Africa, Gana).- Seidler 1924: 69-70.- Day 1934: 20 (Angola).- Hartman 1939: 43, pl. 6: figs 78-82 (Ecuador, Pacific Panama, and Pacific Mexico, 3.7-22 m).- Steinbeck and Rickets 1941 (Pacific Mexico).- Rioja 1947: 198-199, figs 1-8 (Pacific Mexico), 1962: 141 (Pacific Mexico).- Tebble 1955: 80 (Australia).- Fauvel and Rullier 1957: 48 (Senegal), 1959a: 146 (Gulf of Guinea), 1959b: 500 (Senegal and Cape Verde).- Day 1967: 37 (southern Africa).- Intes and Le Loeuff 1975: 275 (Ivory Coast, 10-30 m).- Cruz et al. 1980: 92 (Ecuador).- Batisda-Zavala 1993 (Pacific Mexico).- Hernández-Alcantara et al. 2003: 6 (Pacific Mexico).- Salazar-Vallejo and Londoño-Mesa 2004: 49.- Pleijel 2007: 179 (New Caledonia).

Holotype

Lepidonotus hupferi . Fauvel, 1950: 345 (Senegal). ZMH V-530

Type locality.

Gold Coast, western Africa, Ghana.

Distribution.

Eastern Atlantic from Senegal and Cape Verde. Western Pacific from New Caledonia and Australia. Eastern Pacific from Mexico to Ecuador. 10-30 m.

Remarks.

Lepidonotus hupferi presents a wide distribution. Futher studies are required to enable us to understand if it is a cryptogenic species, because there are no studies to show that it is a species complex, and its origin was not determined