WoRMS taxon details
original description
Aziz, Najmud Din. (1938). Fauna of Karachi. 2. Polychaetes of Karachi. <em>Memoirs of the Department of Zoology, Panjab University.</em> 1: 18-52, plates 3-8. page(s): 29, plate III fig. 1, plate VI figs. 29-30, plate VII figs. 56-57 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Wilson, Robin S.; Glasby, Christopher J. (1993). A revision of the <i>Perinereis nuntia</i> species group (Polychaeta: Nereididae). <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 45(3): 253-277., available online at http://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.45.1993.23 page(s): 264 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shore. [details]
Distribution Manora, Karachi (Pakistan, Indian Ocean). Known only from the type locality. [details]
Etymology Not stated, but the species is certainly named in honour of Prof. George Matthai (b. 1887; d. Cambridge, UK, 25 June 1947), formerly of the Indian Educational Service and emeritus professor of Zoology in the University of the Punjab at Lahore, where he succeeded Lieut.-Colonel J. Stephenson in 1919. The author of the species, N.D. Aziz, was Demonstrator in Zoology, at the same University. [details]
Habitat Probably in sand, in the shore: ''The shore fauna appears to be richer in species than in genera. [...] Although the family Nereidae is very common on the sandy parts of the coast, several species have not been described as it was found difficult to dissect out the retracted probosces of preserved specimens'' (Aziz, 1938: 19). [details]
Type locality Manora, Karachi, Pakistan, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate 24.794º, 66.974º). [details]
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