WoRMS name details
original description
Westheide, Wilfried 1974. Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos. XI. Pisionidae, Hesionidae, Pilargidae, Syllidae (Polychaeta). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens, 44: 1-146. page(s): 41-45, figs. 17-18 [details]
new combination reference
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 page(s): 49, fig. 17X, 23 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean, Galapagos Islands, Santa Cruz Island, Bahía de la Academia. [details]
Etymology The subspecific epithet magna, meaning 'big' in Latin, refers to the big size of the specimens of the subspecies in relation to the stem species, Ehlersia rosea Langerhans, 1879. [details]
Habitat Interstitial in intertidal coarse sand with detritus. [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Galapagos Islands, Santa Cruz Island, Bahía de la Academia, southern beach, sand slope in front of tidal flat (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -0.753057º, long. -90.311102º). [details]
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