WoRMS taxon details
original description
Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan; Barnich, Ruth. (2019). A new species of Ampharete (Annelida: Ampharetidae) from the West Shetland shelf (NE Atlantic Ocean), with two updated keys to the species of the genus in North Atlantic waters. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> (531): 1-16., available online at https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/711/1649 page(s): 4/16, fig. 1-7 [details]
Holotype NMSZ NMS.Z.2019.8.1, geounit Orkney Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology authors: "oculicirrata from the Latin ‘oculi’, meaning ‘eyes’, and ‘cirrata’, meaning ‘in cirrus’ refers
to the conspicuously pigmented eyespots laterally on the long pygidial cirri." [details]
Type locality West of the Orkney Islands, West Shetland shelf, Scotland, 59.40 N, 5.92 W, 130 m [details]
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