WoRMS taxon details
original description
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Three new polar species of <em>Sternaspis </em>Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae). <i>Zootaxa</i>. 3861(4): 333-344., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.3 page(s): 339 [details]
original description
(of Sternaspis monroi Salazar-Vallejo, 2014) Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2014). Three new polar species of <em>Sternaspis </em>Otto, 1821 (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae). <i>Zootaxa</i>. 3861(4): 333-344., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3861.4.3 page(s): 337 [details]
additional source
Monro, Charles Carmichael Arthur. (1930). Polychaete worms. <em>Discovery Reports, Cambridge.</em> 2: 1-222., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15904801 page(s): [earlier record of holotype identified as S.scutata] [details]
redescription
Drennan, Regan; Wiklund, Helena; Rouse, Greg W.; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Wu, Xuwen; Kobayashi, Genki; Yoshino, Kenji; Glover, Adrian G. (2019). Taxonomy and phylogeny of mud owls (Annelida: Sternaspidae), including a new synonymy and new records from the Southern Ocean, North East Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean: challenges in morphological delimitation. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> efirst: 1-39., available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-019-00998-0 note: included Sternaspis monroi as a synonym [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype BM 1930.10.8.2372–2400, verbatimGeounit Off Signy Is, South ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Antarctic Ocean: Palmer Peninsula and Archipelago, South Georgia, South Orkneys, South Shetland Islands, Weddell Sea, in 160–567 m. [details]
Etymology After Kelly Sendall, in recognition of his studies on sternaspids. The epithet is a noun in the genitive case. [details]
Type locality Off Signy Is, South Orkneys, Scotia Sea, R.V. Discovery Sta. 167, 60 50' 30"S, 46 15 00"W (-60.8417, -46.25), 244–344 m, collected with Sternaspis monroi (same type locality). [details]
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