Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Glasby, Christopher J.; Fiege, Dieter; Van Damme, Kay. (2014). Stygobiont polychaetes: notes on the morphology and the origins of groundwater <i>Namanereis</i> (Annelida: Nereididae: Namanereidinae), with a description of two new species. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 171(1): 22-37., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12130 page(s): 24-26, figs. 1A-C, 2A-G, 3A-G, table 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype WAM V8206, verbatimGeounit Duffers, Ashburton R... [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis "... distinguished from all other members of the genus by having distally bifid heterogomph pseudospinigers. It may be distinguished from other groundwater Namanereis species by the combination of jaws with a single terminal tooth and series of subterminal teeth (the typical nereidid condition) and relatively few (seven to 11) serrations on the supraneuroacicular falcigers." [details]
Etymology After Pilbara, the geographic region of occurrence. [details]
Habitat Bore holes in cattle pastoral areas intermittently flowing
river catchments in the Pilbara, 54–491 m asl, salinity
0.5–1.5 ppt, temperature 28–31 °C. [details]
Type locality Duffers, Ashburton River catchment, Pilbara, Australia, 23 47.27' S, 117 48.41' E, 298 m asl [details]
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