WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Schmarda, L. K. (1861). Neue Wirbellose Thiere: Beobachted und Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erdr 1853 bis 1857. <em>In Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.</em> Erster Band, Zweite Hälfte., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/neuewirbelloseth21861schm page(s): 72, two unnumbered text-figs. on top of page 72, plate XXVIII fig. 219 [details] 
new combination reference
Augener, Hermann. (1918). Polychaeta. <em>Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas.</em> 2(2): 67-625, plates II-VII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7172280 page(s): 283-286, text-figs. plate V fig. 97 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated in the original description. [details]
Distribution South Africa: Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet polycera is composed by the Greek prefix poly-, meaning 'many' or 'much', and the Greek word kéras, meaning 'horn', and seems to make reference to the tentacular cirri of the species, described as being eight. [details]
Habitat Not stated in the original description. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Table Bay (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -33.88º, long. 18.45º). [details]
Type material Type material not found by Licher (1999: 285). [details]
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