Synonymy of Brevibrachium maculatum

(Relevant original names and New Zealand records only)

Brevibrachium maculatum as:    Rhamphobrachium maculatum
  Name used as: New entity (basionym) by:  Estcourt 1966 (pages 205-207, illus. Fig.1-3.)
  Record locality: Great Island, Three Kings Islands
  Remarks: A single anterior fragment, 14 mm, 42 chaetigers, from on Sargassum johnsonii
  [Basionym for this record: Rhamphobrachium maculatum Estcourt 1966]

Brevibrachium maculatum as:    Rhamphobrachium maculatum
  Name used as: Record for New Zealand by:  Knox & Hicks 1973 (pages 290-293, illus. Fig.33-43.)
  Record locality: Slipper Island, Coromandel; Kaikoura
  Remarks: Redescription based on 17 specimens from abalone and Cookia shells.
  [Basionym for this record: Rhamphobrachium maculatum Estcourt 1966]

Brevibrachium maculatum as:    Brevibrachium maculatum
  Name used as: Material-based revision or review by:  Paxton 1986 (pages 79-80, illus. Fig.3.)
  Record locality:
  Remarks: Species placed in new genus (see generic revision paper of Paxton), synonyms include the Rhamphobrachium sp. of Smith and Jensz from Australia
  [Basionym for this record: Rhamphobrachium maculatum Estcourt 1966]

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