Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Smith, Ralph I. (1997). Descriptions of new species and comments on previously described species of terebellid polychaetes from New Zealand and Australia. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 60(2): 324-349., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1997/00000060/00000002/art00014 page(s): 333-335, fig. 5a-d [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype AM W.22581, geounit Leigh [details]
Paratype USNM 170020, geounit Leigh [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Tidal level, between 0.0 and 0.3 m. [details]
Distribution New Zealand: Leigh Harbor (Auckland, North Island). [details]
Etymology "The specific name refers to the prominent renal papilla present on segment 3, and is from the Latin" (Hutchings & Smith, 1997: 335). [details]
Habitat In an ovoid mass in sand lightly cemented with mucus, in cavities and rock crevices, at tidal level. [details]
Type locality Leigh Harbor, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (36°20'S, 174°48'E; provided geocoordinates slightly displaced, corrected here to -36.2887°, 174.8072°). [details]
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