Polychaeta name details
original description
Fauchald, Kristian. (1977). Polychaetes from intertidal areas in Panama, with a review of previous shallow-water records. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 221: 1-81., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.221 page(s): 57-58, fig. 12d-h [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1986). A revision of the genus <i>Euthelepus</i> (Terebellidae: Thelepinae). <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 38: 105-117., available online at http://10.3853/j.0067-1975.38.1986.177 page(s): 114, fig. 4h, table 1; note: as Thelepus pascua [details]
Holotype USNM 53093, geounit Isla Galeta [details]
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Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Caribbean Sea: Panama (Galeta Island). [details]
Etymology Not stated, unclear. The specific epithet pascua could be the feminine form of the Latin adjective pascuus, meaning 'of or for pasture' or 'grazing', and coud refer to the habitat of the species, as the holotype was collected amongst the Laurencia zone of a dead coral reef. It does not seem to refer to Easter ('Pascua', is Spanish), as the species was collected the 17th March 1972, while in the same year Easter was in the 2nd of April . [details]
Habitat Laurencia zone on intertidal dead coral reef. [details]
Status Hutchings and Glasby (1986) and Londoño-Mesa (2009) suggest that this species belongs to Thelepus because of the absence of lateral lappets [details]
Type locality Galeta Island reef, Colón, Panama, Caribbean Sea (gazetteer estimate 9.403°, -79.860°). [details]
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