Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Monro, C.C.A. (1931). Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29, British Museum (Natural History).</em> 4(1): 1-37., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49516539 page(s): 26-27, fig. 14a-c [details]
redescription
García-Garza M.E.; de León-González, J.A. (2009). A new species of <i>Dasybranchethus</i> (Annelida: Capitellidae) from Mexican Pacific, with a redescription of <i>Dasybranchethus fauveli</i>. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.</em> 89(7): 1437-1441., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315409000241 page(s): 1439-1441, fig. 2A-E [details]
Holotype NHMUK 1931.7.1.58, geounit Low Isles [details]
Nontype USNM 29980, geounit Micronesia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Not stated, probably shallow water. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Low Isles (Great Barrier Reef, Australia); Kapingamarangi Atoll (Micronesia). [details]
Etymology The species is named in honour of the French zoologist and polychaetologist Dr. Pierre Louis André Fauvel (b. Cherbourg, France, 8 October 1866 - d. Angers, France, 12 December 1958). [details]
Habitat Not stated, unknown. [details]
Type locality Low Isles, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia (gazetteer estimate -16.386º, 145.563º). [details]
Type material Holotype (NHMUK 1931.7.1.58) deposited at the Natural History Museum, London, UK. It is in poor condition with the epithelium of some thoracic and abdominal segments damaged (García-Garza & Léon-González, 2009: 1441). [details]
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