WoRMS taxon details
original description
Treadwell, Aaron L. (1914). New Syllidae from San Francisco Bay, collected by the U.S.S. "Albatross". University of California Publications in Zoology. 13(9): 235-238., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34806081 page(s): 237-238, figs. 4-7 [details]
additional source
Berkeley, E. and Berkeley, C. (1938). Notes on Polychaeta from the coast of western Canada. II. Syllidae. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> Series 11, 1: 33-49., available online at http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933808526739 page(s): 47-48 [details]
additional source
Berkeley, Edith; Berkeley, Cyril. (1948). Annelida. Polychaeta Errantia. <em>Canadian Pacific Fauna. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Toronto.</em> 9b(1): 1-100. page(s): 70, fig. 102 [details]
additional source
Hartman, Olga. (1956). Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 109(2): 239-310., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1145 page(s): 248 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Treadwell, Aaron L. (1922). Polychaetous annelids collected at Friday Harbor, State of Washington, in February and March, 1920. <em>Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication.</em> 312: 171-181., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5402762 page(s): 173-174, figs. 1-2 [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution North East Pacific, from San Francisco Bay to Canada. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet varius is the Latin word for 'diverse', 'different' or 'various', and refers probably to the three different regions in which the body of the type specimen, a Sacconereis, was divided. [details]
Taxonomy The original description of the species is not sufficiently good to characterize it or to discriminate it from other species ocurring in the same area. Besides, the type material is lost (Hartman, 1956). For these reasons Nygren (2004) considered the species as Epigamia incertae sedis. [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, central California: 'Bonito Point' (= Point Bonita), near the outer end of the entrance to San Francisco Bay (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 37.817º, long. -122.527º). [details]
Type material Species described with base on a single specimen in the Sacconereis phase (Treadwell, 1914). Types not known to exist, according to Hartman (1956: 248). [details]
Validity The species was considered by Nygren (2004) as Epigamia incertae sedis. The original description of the species is not good enough to characterize the species or to discriminate it from other species ocurring in the same area, and moreover the type material is lost. [details]
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