WoRMS taxon details
original description
Warren, Lynda M.; Parker, Miles. (1994). <i>Pseudonotomastus southerni</i> gen. nov. sp. nov., a new capitellid from the Celtic Sea. <em>Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie.</em> 162: 299-306., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59328516 page(s): 300-303, figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Holotype NHMUK ZB.1982.89, geounit Celtic Sea [details]
Paratype NHMUK ZB.1982.90-122, geounit Celtic Sea [details]
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Depth range 70-90 m. [details]
Distribution Celtic Sea: off Cork (Ireland). [details]
Etymology The species is named after Rowland Southern (b. Adlington, Lancashire, UK, 1882 - d. Dublin, Ireland, 13 December 1935), biologist and naturalist first at the Natural History Museum, Dublin, and later at the Fisheries Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (antecedent of the Fisheries Research Centre of the Irish Department of the Marine), and who wrote many papers on the Irish annelids, which were among the first, and some of which remain among the most important publications on the Irish polychaetes. [details]
Habitat The type specimens of the species were collected between 70-90 m depth, in an area characterised by mixed poorly sorted sediments, slightly coarser at shallower sites closer to shore and muddier offshore [details]
Type locality Celtic Sea, Ireland, off Cork (51º30'N, 8º20'W). [details]
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