Polychaeta name details
original description
Straughan, Dale. (1967). Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. <em>Australian Journal of Zoology.</em> 15(1): 201-261., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=ZO9670201 page(s): 225; note: verified original name spelling was 'gradata' [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Sun, Yanan; Al-Kandari, Manal; Kubal, Priti; Walmiki, Nitin; Kupriyanova, Elena K. (2017). Cutting a Gordian knot of tubeworms with DNA data: the story of the Hydroides operculata-complex (Annelida, Serpulidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4323(1): 39-48., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4323.1.3 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Not stated. Evidently Latin gradata = gradual, for the gradual size change of the ring of opercular spines. [details]
Type locality Pretty Beach, a beach 40 Km north of Cairns. Straughan gives the location as Pretty Beach, Cairns, but there is no beach of that name at Cairns itself. Map estimate -16.6111° 145.5318° [details]
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