Polychaeta taxon details
Holotype MNHN POLY TYPE 1250, geounit Ivory Coast [details]
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Depth range 20-40 m. [details]
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: West Africa (Ivory Coast; Angola). [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated in the original description. The species is named after Jørgen Bagger Kirkegaard (b. Frederiksberg, Denmark, 18 November 1920 - d. 2 March 2006), curator of Annelida of the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, and who first described the species in 1959, as Ophelia sp. (Kirkegaard, 1959: 46-47). [details]
Habitat Not stated, at shallow shelf depths. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN POLY TYPE 1250). [details]
Type locality Off Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa, Atlantic Ocean (5.225°, -4.0833°). [details]
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