Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1974). Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der afrikanischen Westküste zwischen Angola und Kap der Guten Hoffnung und der afrikanischen Ostküste von Südafrika und Mocambique unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil II. Die Polychaeten des Untersuchungsgebietes. <em>Mitteilungen des Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museums und Instituts.</em> Ergänzungsband zu Band 69: 95-228. page(s): 139, plate 7 fig. 67a [details] Available for editors [request]
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Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Atlantic Ocean, Western Africa: Angola (Namibe). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet dentata, feminine form of the Latin adjective dentato, meaning 'toothed', refers to the presence of one big tooth and three to four slender teeth of the distal region of the subacicular chaetae of the subspecies. [details]
Habitat Eulittoral, among algae. [details]
Type locality Atlantic Ocean, Angola, Namibe (= Moçamedes), about 2 km north Ponta do Giraúl lighthouse (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -15.1166º, long. 12.1171º), eulittoral, among algae, with Enteromorpha. [details]
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