Polychaeta name details
original description
Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama. (1977). Polychaete cryptofauna from rims of similar intertidal vermetid reefs on the Mediterranean coast of Israel and in the Gulf of Elat: Exogoninae and Autolytinae (Polychaeta Errantia: Syllidae). Israel Journal of Zoology. 26: 59-99., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00212210.1977.10688441#.VE-6GzTF_Ss page(s): 73-77, fig. 6 [details]
new combination reference
San Martín, G. (2003). Annelida, Polychaeta II: Syllidae. <em>In: Ramos MA et al. (eds) Fauna Iberica, Vol 21, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. CSIC, Madrid.</em> p 1-554. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 233-234, fig. 124 [details]
Holotype BMNH 1997.1050, geounit Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Eastern Mediterranean Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, in Dendropoma habitats. [details]
Etymology The subspecific epithet cryptica refers to the Dendropoma habitats in which the subspecies lives. [details]
Habitat Low-midlittoral vermetid reefs of Dendropoma, on wave-battered beachrock slabs. [details]
Type locality Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Israel, north of Shavei Zion, 217 m north of Bet Ha'Emek Creek (latitude given in Ben-Eliahu & Safriel (1982) as 32º58'45"N, longitude estimated with gazetteer to be 35º04'48"E). [details]
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