WoRMS taxon details
original 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): 41, text-figures a-c in the lower part of page 41, plate XXIV fig. 196 [details]
original description
(of Thelepus setosus africana Day, 1951) Day, John H. (1951). The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 1. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of Natal and Mosambique. <em>Annals of the Natal Museum.</em> 12(1): 1-67. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Neottis rugosa Ehlers, 1897) Ehlers, Ernst. (1897). Zur Kenntnis der ostafrikanischen Borstenwurmer. <em>Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse.</em> Jahre [Year] 1897: 158-176., available online at http://www.digizeitschriften.de/en/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN002497816 page(s): 171-172 [details]
original description
(of Terebella heterobranchia Schmarda, 1861) 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): 42, text-figures a-b in the upper part of page 42, plate XXIV fig. 197 [details]
additional source
Quatrefages, A. (1866). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <b>Volume 2.</b>. Première partie. 1-336. Deuxième Partie. 337-794. Explication des planches p.1-24. planches 1-20. Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=M_xNAAAAcAAJ page(s): 366 [details]
additional source
Glasby, Christopher J.; Read, Geoffrey B.; Lee, Kenneth E.; Blakemore, R.J.; Fraser, P.M.; Pinder, A.M.; Erséus, C.; Moser, W.E.; Burreson, E.M.; Govedich, F.R.; Davies, R.W.; Dawson, E.W. (2009). Phylum Annelida: bristleworms, earthworms, leeches. <em>[Book chapter].</em> Chapt 17, pp. 312-358. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Benham, W.B. 1909. Report on the Polychaeta of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. Reports on the Geophysics, Geology, Zoology and Botany of the Islands lying to the south of New Zeland, based mainly on observations and collections made during an expedition on the government steamer HINEMOA in November l907 1: 236-250., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24000003#page/282/mode/1up page(s): 247; note: now superseded transfer to Thelepus [details]
redescription
Hutchings, Patricia A.; Smith, Ralph I. (1997). Descriptions of new species and comments on previously described species of terebellid polychaetes from New Zealand and Australia. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 60(2): 324-349., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/1997/00000060/00000002/art00014 page(s): 344; note: reverts back from recombination to Thelepus [details] Available for editors [request]
Neotype AM W.22578, geounit Otago Peninsula [details]
Nontype AM W.22587, geounit Otago Peninsula [details]
Nontype NHMUK 1995.1658, geounit Otago Peninsula [details]
Nontype USNM 170024, geounit Otago Peninsula [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Diagnosis Original diagnosis by Schmarda (1861: 41): "Corpus flavo-rubescens. Branchiae cephalicae pallidiores, breves; laterales cinnabarinae, parvae. In ultimis segmentis pinnulae. Os transversum" [details]
Distribution New Zealand (widespread). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet plagiostoma is composed by the Greek adjective plagios, meaning 'oblique', and the Greek noun stoma, meaning 'mouth', and refers to the shape of the mouth opening (see Schmarda, 1861: plate XXIV fig. 194). [details]
Habitat Common in Chione shell-banks, lives in sandy tubes clustered in empty shells of the bivalves Chione sp. and the less common Macoma sp. left after commercial harvesting in the low intertidal sands (ca.0.2 m tidal level). Also found in muddy sand of mangrove flats, living in fragile, U-shaped, sandy tubes in the upper 3-4 cm of muddy sand among mangrove pneumatophores. [details]
Reproduction At the date of the collection of the neotype (5 March 1992) females had oocytes of all sizes in the coelom, while males had well-developed sperm platelets at late pre-motile stages. [details]
Taxonomy Hutchings & Smith (1997: 332 & 344) designate a neotype and redescribe. The transfer to Thelepus by Benham (1909) and others is not correct. [details]
Type locality Original type locality: New Zealand ("Neu-Seeland"). Neotype from Papanui Inlet, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean (-45.85°, 170.7167°). [details]
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