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Polychaeta source details

Johnson, Herbert Parlin 1903. Fresh-water nereids from the Pacific coast and Hawaii, with remarks on fresh-water Polychaeta in general. 205-222. In. Mark Anniversary Volume. To Edward Laurens Mark, Hersey professor of anatomy and director of the zoölogical laboratory at Harvard university, in celebration of twenty-five years of successful work for the advancement of zoölogy from his former students, 1877-1902. Henry Holt & Co. New York.
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
Pacific Ocean
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Baja California Sur for Lycastoides alticola Johnson, 1903 
California for Nereis limnicola Johnson, 1903 
Hawaiian Islands for Lycastis hawaiiensis Johnson, 1903 
 Altitude

About 7000 ft (2133.6 m).  [details]

 Diagnosis

"Prostomium small, bilobed anteriorly, the lobes produced to form antennae; proboscis without paragnaths; no eyes; ... [details]

 Distribution

Pacific Ocean: Hawaiian Islands; Java, Indonesia. [details]

 Distribution

Mexico, Baja California, Sierra de la Laguna, freshwater in a mountain stream, about 7000 ft above sea level ... [details]

 Etymology

Not stated. The specific epithet hawaiiensis refers obviously to the type locality of the species, the Hawaiian Islands. [details]

 Etymology

The generic name Lycastoides is formed by the name of the genus Lycastis Savigny, 1822 followed by the Latin suffix ... [details]

 Etymology

The specific epithet alticola is presumably composed by the Latin adjective altus, meaning 'high', followed by the ... [details]

 Grammatical gender

Masculine. A compound genus-group name ending in -oides is treated as masculine, whereas information from the ... [details]

 Habitat

Freshwater. [details]

 Habitat

Freshwater in a mountain stream, about 7000 ft above sea level (2133.6 m).  [details]

 Type designation

According to article 68.2.1. of the ICZN, "The expressions "gen. n., sp. n.", "new genus and species", or an ... [details]

 Type locality

Type material from two freshwater locations in the Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean: one a spring near Honolulu ... [details]

 Type locality

Mexico, Baja California, Sierra de la Laguna, freshwater in a mountain stream, 7000 ft above sea level (2133.6 m). ... [details]

 Type locality

South East corner of Lake Merced, San Francisco, California, N. America, in freshwater, geolocation estimate ... [details]