Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Blake, James A. (2016). Kirkegaardia (Polychaeta, Cirratulidae), new name for Monticellina Laubier, preoccupied in the Rhabdocoela, together with new records and descriptions of eight previously known and sixteen new species from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4166(1): 1-93., available online at http://mapress.com/j/zt/issue/view/zootaxa.4166.1 page(s): 42-44, fig. 20, table 1 [pages 75, 79], table 2 [page 84] [details]
Holotype LACM LACM-AHF Poly 8935, geounit Puget Sound [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology author: "Latin, crista, for crest or ridge, referring to the mid-dorsal ridge or keel that starts on the peristomium and continues within the mid-dorsal channel." Crista is a noun, rendered feminine adjectival with -ata suffix. [details]
Type locality Case Inlet, inner Puget Sound, Washington, 47.233°, -122.8498, 20 m [details]
Type material Known only from the holotype. No other material. [details]
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