Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1962). Die Polychaeten des Eulitorals. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, G. and Gerd Hartmann. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der chilenischen Pazifikküste und der argentinischen Küste Südpatagoniens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 60: 57-270. page(s): 100-103, figs. 87-92 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Orensanz, José María 1974. Los anelidos poliquetos de la provincia biogeografica Magallanica. I. Catálogo de las especies citadas hastas 1974. Laboratorio de comunidades bentónicas-gabienete abierto Sta.Clara Del Mar contribución técnica 1: 1-83. page(s): 28 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Southeast Pacific Ocean: from central Chile to the Strait of Magellan. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet micropedata is composed by the Greek prefix micro, meaning 'small', and pedata the femenine of the Latin adjective pedatus, meaning 'footed', and refers to the short and blunt parapodia of the species. [details]
Habitat Amongst algae, barnacles, and mussels, intertidal to shallow ater. Temperatures 16-21.7ºC; salinities 14.4-27.2‰. [details]
Type locality Southeast Pacific Ocean, Chile, mouth of Andalien River (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -36.7374º, long. -73.0082º). [details]
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