Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1960. Polychaeten aus dem Roten Meer. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 16(1): 69-125., available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001489/148944mo.pdf page(s): 86-87, plate 7 figs. 54, 57-58, plate 9 figs. 55-56 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Westheide W (1974) Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos. XI. Pisionidae, Hesionidae, Pilargidae, Syllidae (Polychaeta). Mikrofauna Meeresb., 44:1-146 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 0.5-5 m. [details]
Distribution Red Sea: Egypt (Hurghada); Saudi Arabia (Sarso Island); Sudan (Sha'ab Anbar). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet uncinigera is a Latin composed word meaning 'carrying hooks', and refers to the modified chaetae of the ventral region of the chaetal bundle, which becomes unidentate and increasingly stronger and recurved in the posterior chaetigers, resembling hooks. [details]
Habitat On corals and amongst algae and balanids, at shallow water. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus, Branchiosyllis, by Hartmann-Schröder (1965), and synonymized with Branchiosyllis exilis by Westheide (1974) [details]
Type locality Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Farasan Archipelago, Sarso (= Saso) Island (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 16.84, long. 41.58). [details]
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