Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1989). Die polychaeten der antiborealen und subtropisch-tropischen Küste Südost-Australiens zwischen Lakes Entrance (Victoria) im Süden und Maclean (New South Wales) im Norden. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa; Hartmann, Gerd. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil 14. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 86: 11-63. page(s): 33, figs. 47-51 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf page(s): 51-52, pl. 11A-F [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-19669, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution South West Pacific, east coast of Australia: New South Wales (Lake Macquarie). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet filiformis refers probably to the threadlike shape of the worm. [details]
Habitat Amongst algae, in shallow water. [details]
Type locality Lake Macquarie, south of sea entrance, New South Wales, Australia (gazetteer estimate -33.087°, 151.662°). [details]
Type material Holotype (ZMH P-19669) incomplete, 18 chaetigers, length 2.2 mm, width 0.2 mm. [details]
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