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Polychaeta source details
Blake, James A. (1981). A new coralline boring species of Polydora (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Northern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 80(1): 32-35.
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Blake, James A.
1981
A new coralline boring species of <i>Polydora</i> (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Northern California
Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
80(1): 32-35
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)
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A new species of Polydora is described from Tomales Point in northern California. The species is a borer in coralline algae and related to the P. giardi group. It differs from its closest relatives in having posterior notopodial spines and a four lobed pygidium.
California quadrant
Systematics, Taxonomy
Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981 accepted as Dipolydora bifurcata (Blake, 1981) (original description)
Holotype USNM 58976, geounit Tomales Point, identified as Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981
Paratype USNM 58977, geounit Tomales Point, identified as Polydora bifurcata Blake, 1981 Distribution Northern California, in the vicinity of Tomales Point (USA, Pacific Ocean). [details] Distribution Northern California, in the vicinity of Tomales Point (USA, Pacific Ocean). [details] Etymology Not explicitly stated. The specific epithet bifurcata is a Latin adjective meaning 'forked in two' or 'bifurcated', ... [details] Habitat Boring into intertidal coralline alga Lithophyllum pacificum. [details] Habitat Boring into intertidal coralline alga Lithophyllum pacificum. [details] Type locality Point Reyes National Seashore, Tomales Point, northern California, USA, Pacific Ocean (38.2333°, -122.9833°). [details] |