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Rullier, François. (1972). Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie recueillies par Y. Plessis et B. Salvat. Expédition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. 6: 6-169.
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Rullier, François
1972
Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie recueillies par Y. Plessis et B. Salvat
Expédition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
6: 6-169
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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None. Translation of part of Introduction:
""B. SALVAT and Y. PLESSIS, on mission to New Caledonia, under the aegis of the Singer Polignac Foundation, at the end of 1961 and at the beginning of 1962, collected many specimens of Polychaete. The research was carried out in an autonomous diving suit between 2 and 35 meters depth, [also] by collecting at low tide in the intertidal zone, and only once by dredging. Y. PLESSIS reported on the zoological surveys in Volume IV of the Cahiers du Pacifique and B. SALVAT in "Faunistic prospecting in New Caledonia", within the framework of the mission of studies of the coral reefs , No. 6, June 1964, pp. 77-19), cites the principal stations visited and the techniques employed." [...]"
"This collection includes 187 species, of which 103 are new for New Caledonia and 18 (one from the Gulf of Panama) are new to science; that is to say the considerable contribution it represents. The new species are distributed as follows: 3 Aphroditidae: Lepidonotus (Thormora) salvati, Lagisca hirsuta, Harmothoë lunulata (delle Chiaje) var. nigra; 1 Hesionidae: Ophiodromus tigrinus; 3 Syllidae: Syllis (Typosyllis) plessisi; Syllis (Typosyllis) filiformis, Autolytus bicolor; 3 Nereidae: Nereis homogompha (Gulf of Panama), Nereis (Ceratonereis) dubia, Platynereis hugonis; 1 Glyceridae: Eone salvati; 3 Eunicidae: Eunice plessisi, Marphysa bemardi, Amphiro pacifica; 1 Ariciidae: Scoloplosia minima; 1 Maldanidae: Chaponella heterochaeta nov. Gen., Nov., Sp; 1 Terebellidae: Terebellobranchia hugonis: 1 Sabellidae: Oridia pacifica. The best represented families are Aphroditidae (23 species), Syllidae (20), Nereidae (25), Eunicidae (28). Some families represented so far by very few species have seen their numbers rise rapidly: the Amphinomidae receive 4 species not yet reported in New Caledonia, as opposed to 2 already known, the Phyllodocidae and 7 new arrivals for a single old, the Syllidae, of 20 species, have 3 new and 11 species not yet reported there; the six species of Spionidae are all new to New Caledonia, and of 8 species of Cirratulidae, 6 had not yet been found there. We believe that the autonomous scuba widely used by Mm Plessis and Salvat for the collection of samples and allowing access to biotopes hitherto prohibited to researchers, explains, with the care that they put there, the richness of their discoveries."
South Tropical Pacific
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Holotype MNHN IRFA SYL Y14, geounit New Caledonia, identified as Syllis (Typosyllis) plessisi Rullier, 1972
Holotype IRFA Y15, geounit New Caledonia, identified as Syllis (Typosyllis) filiformis Rullier, 1972
Holotype UCO ZA Y16, geounit New Caledonia, identified as Autolytus bicolor Rullier, 1972
 Depth range

Shallow water.  [details]

 Distribution

New Caledonia.  [details]

 Distribution

New Caledonia.  [details]

 Distribution

New Caledonia. [details]

 Editor's comment

Possibly dubious monotypic genus erected for apparent abranchiate orbiniid possessing forked chaetae. Rullier ... [details]

 Etymology

The specific epithet bicolor refers to the color pattern of the species, being white with irregular black segments, ... [details]

 Etymology

author: "Cette espèce est dédiée à notre ami MARCEL BERNARD, à qui nous devons de l'avoir trouvée ce jour-là" [details]

 Etymology

The specific epithet filiformis refers to the thin and long body of the holotype.  [details]

 Etymology

The species is dedicated to Mr. Y. Plessis, who collected the holotype in 1961.  [details]

 Habitat

Inside corals (Rullier, 1972: 21).  [details]

 Habitat

Detritic coralligenous soft sediments, at shallow water.  [details]

 Taxonomy

The species was considered as an Autolytinae incertae sedis by Nygren (2004: 182-183), due to the poor condition of ... [details]

 Taxonomy

The species was considered to be a nomen dubium by Licher (1999), due to the very poor condition of the mounted ... [details]

 Type locality

Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, Baie de Saint-Vincent, Îlot Ronhua (= Petit Ténia) (geocoordinates not provided, ... [details]

 Type locality

Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, Baie de Saint-Vincent (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with a gazetteer to ... [details]

 Type locality

Southwest Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, L'Île-des-Pins (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer ... [details]

 Type material

The type material includes only the holotype, mounted in a slide. It was initially deposited at the collections of ... [details]