Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartman, Olga. (1936). New species of Spionidae (Annelida Polychaeta) from the coast of California. <em>University of California Publications in Zoology.</em> 41(6): 45-52. page(s): 45-46, figs. 1-2 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1944). Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. <em>Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions.</em> 10(2): 239-307, plates 19-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4680190 page(s): 260 [details]
Paratype USNM 20220, geounit California [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to shallow subtidal depths. [details]
Diet Relatively large food masses are nipped off by the distal ends of the palpi, taken into the ciliated palpal groove, and carried into the ventral mouth. Fecal pellets are long, cylindrical, and ejected from the anterior end of the tube on the ventral side. [details]
Distribution Pacific coast of California (USA): east San Francisco Bay (Berkeley Beach, Berkeley; Lake Merritt, Oakland); Tomales Bay, near Inverness; and Bodega Lagoon, north of Bodega Bay. [details]
Etymology Not stated. Unknown. [details]
Habitat Brackish waters, or at least waters of lowered salinities, in mud flats and muddy sediments at shallow water. [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed. [details]
Type locality The species was described with base of material from several localities in California (USA), but none was explicitly designated as the type locality in the original description. There are some paratypes deposited at the USNM, being their collection data as follows: Pacific Ocean, USA, central California, east San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Beach (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 37.866º, long. -122.306º), mud flats. [details]
Type material According to Hartman (1936: 45), the holotype should be deposited at the United States National Museum, but the online catalogue of the USNM only retrieves 15 paratypes (USNM 20220). [details]
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