Polychaeta name details
original description
Imajima, Minoru 1973. Paraonidae (Polychaeta) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 16(2): 253-292. page(s): 258-260, fig. 2 [details]
Holotype NSMT Pol. H 85, geounit Japanese part of the North Pacific Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The species is named for Dr. M. Horikoshi of the Ocean Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, to whom the author was indebted for the specimens, as well as many other interesting polychaetes from Japan. [details]
Type locality The coordinates of the type locality are not provided in the original description of the species. The geographic location given here is accurate but not precise, and it was obtained using the online gazetteer Marine World Database (www.anchorageworld.com) for Miyako Bay (Japan), where the holotype was collected.
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