original description
Hartman, Olga. (1967). Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 2: 1-387.
page(s): 66-67, plate 18 figs. A-C [details] Available for editors
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
Clarke, Andrew; Johnston, Nadine M. (2003). Antarctic marine benthic diversity. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 41: 47-114. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy
Pettibone, Marian H. (1971). Revision of some species referred to <i>Leptonereis</i>, <i>Nicon</i>, and <i>Laeonereis</i> (Polychaeta: Nereididae). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 104: 1-53., available online at http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/10088/5689
page(s): 8-11, figs. 1-2; note: with Nicon maculata Kinberg, 1865 [details] Available for editors
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Taxonomy From Hartman (1967: 67): "This species is distinguished from Nicon loxechini Kinberg, 1855 [sic], which has been referred to Platynereis magalhaensis Kinberg, 1866 (Hartman,1949, p. 60). Nereis loxechini Ehlers (1908, p. 73) from the Strait of Magellan was preoccupied and its name replaced by Nicon ehlersi Hartman, 1953. Nicon benhami differs from all these most conspicuously because of the presence of prolonged dorsal cirri and thick, supra-acicular falcigers in neuropodia." [details]Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM) [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Pacific-Antarctic Ridge [details]