WoRMS name details
Holotype USNM 19335, geounit Gilbert Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Surface, taken at night by electric light. [details]
Distribution Central Pacific Ocean: Kiribati, northern Gilbert Islands (off Abaiang). Only known from the type locality. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet planipalpus is composed by the Latin adjective planus, meaning 'flat', and the Latin noun palpus, meaning 'palp', and refers to the palps being "strongly flattened, thin, and very broad proximally" (Chamberlin, 1919: 170). [details]
Habitat The only known specimen was collected at the surface, at night by electric night. It was a reproductive stolon, and the atokous form and its habitat are not known. [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Kiribati, northern Gilbert Islands, off Apaiang (= Abaiang) (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 1.675º, long. 172.992º); surface, taken at night by electric light. [details]
Type material Holotype of Autolytus planipalpus (USNM 19335) is a male stolon. [details]
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