WoRMS taxon details
Scyphoproctus platyproctus Jones, 1961
331798 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331798)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Jones, Meredith L. (1961). Two new polychaetes of the families Pilargidae and Capitellidae from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2049: 1-18., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3490
page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors
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Holotype AMNH 3603, geounit Panama City
, Note Gulf of Mexico, USA, Florida, 12 miles off...
Holotype AMNH 3603, geounit Panama City [details]
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Type locality Gulf of Mexico, USA, Florida, 12 miles off Panama City, Bay County (30º00'34''N, 85º54'12''W), at 100 feet (= 30.5 m), in an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete. [details]
Type material Holotype (AMNH 3603) and paratypes (AMNH 3604) deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA). [details]
Depth range 30.5 m.
Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA).
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat',...
Depth range 30.5 m. [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA).
Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat',...
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat', and -proctus, meaning 'anus', and presumably refers to the shape of the pygidium of the species, described as being "a flattened plaque [...], slightly oblique to a transverse plane" (Jones, 1961: 12). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2024). World Polychaeta Database. Scyphoproctus platyproctus Jones, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331798 on 2024-07-30
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original description
Jones, Meredith L. (1961). Two new polychaetes of the families Pilargidae and Capitellidae from the Gulf of Mexico. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2049: 1-18., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3490
page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
page(s): 10-17, figs. 15-26 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Fauchald, K.; Granados-Barba, A.; Solís-Weiss, V. (2009). Polychaeta (Annelida) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 751–788 in D.L. Felder and D.K. Camp (eds.). <em>Gulf of Mexico. Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.</em> Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas., available online at https://books.google.es/books?id=CphA8hiwaFIC&lpg=PR1&pg=PA751 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range 30.5 m. [details]Distribution Gulf of Mexico, off Panama City (Bay County, Florida, USA). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet platyproctus is composed by the combining forms of Greek origin platy-, meaning 'flat', and -proctus, meaning 'anus', and presumably refers to the shape of the pygidium of the species, described as being "a flattened plaque [...], slightly oblique to a transverse plane" (Jones, 1961: 12). [details]
Habitat In an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete, at shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Gulf of Mexico, USA, Florida, 12 miles off Panama City, Bay County (30º00'34''N, 85º54'12''W), at 100 feet (= 30.5 m), in an empty Strombus sp. shell, and inhabiting the vaccated tube of a sabellariid polychaete. [details]
Type material Holotype (AMNH 3603) and paratypes (AMNH 3604) deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York (USA). [details]
