WoRMS name details
original description
Pettibone, Marian H. 1956. Some polychaete worms of the families Hesionidae, Syllidae and Nereidae from the east coast of North America, West Indies, and Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 46(9): 281-294., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39693975 page(s): 282-284, fig. 3a-g [details]
additional source
Pettibone, Marian H. (1963). Marine polychaete worms of the New England region. I. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. <i>Bulletin of the United States National Museum</i>. 227(1): 1-356., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7870746 page(s): 183, fig. 42i [details]
additional source
Day, John H. (1973). New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. <em>NOAA Technical Reports, Ser. National Marine Fisheries Service, Circulars.</em> 375: 1-140., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.62852 page(s): 39 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Gardiner, Stephen L. (1976). Errant polychaete annelids from North Carolina. <em>Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society.</em> 91(3): 77-220., available online at http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jncas/id/2925 page(s): 151, fig. 15l-n [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Taylor, John L. (1984). Family Nereidae Johnston, 1845. In: Uebelacker, J.M.; Johnson, P.G. (eds). <i>Taxonomic guide to the polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Final report to the Minerals Management Service, contract 14-12-001-29091.</i> Volume 5. Chapter Pagination: 31-1 to 31-42. Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc., Mobile, Alabama., available online at https://www.boem.gov/ESPIS/3/3868.pdf page(s): 31-35 to 31-38, figs. 31-33, 31-34a-f; note: as Nereis grayi [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 22781, geounit Hadley Harbor [details]
Paratype USNM 22782, geounit Hadley Harbor [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Low water to about 200 m. [details]
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: from Massachusetts to North Carolina (USA). [details]
Etymology The species is named after Milton Gray, who collected the type material. [details]
Habitat In thicky muddy tubes of Sabaco elongatus (Verrill, 1873) (as Maldanopsis elongata), and on muddy and sandy sediments, from low water to shelf depths. [details]
Type locality Hadley Harbour, Uncatena Island, Woods Hole area, Massachusetts, USA, Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer estimate 41.516°, -70.702°). [details]
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