Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1960. Polychaeten aus dem Roten Meer. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 16(1): 69-125., available online at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001489/148944mo.pdf page(s): 76-77, plate 2 fig. 21, plate 4 figs. 22-23 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 page(s): 264-265, fig. 110 [details]
Holotype ZMH P-14665, geounit Red Sea [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 2 m. [details]
Distribution Red Sea, Farasan Archipelago (Saudi Arabia), Sarso Island. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet heterocirra refers to the difference of thickness between the tentacular cirri and the following much thinner dorsal cirri. [details]
Habitat On Galaxea corals, at shallow water. [details]
Nomenclature According to Licher (1999: 264, footnote) the correct latinization of the specific epithet is heterocirrata, instead of the original heterocirra. [details]
Type locality Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, Farasan Archipelago, Sarso (= Saso) Island (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 16.84º, long. 41.58º). [details]
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