Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Elias, Rodolfo; Saracho-Bottero, María Andrea; Simon, Carol Anne. (2019). Protocirrineris (Polychaeta:Cirratulidae) in South Africa and description of two new species. <em>Revista de Biología Tropical.</em> 67(S5): S70-S80., available online at https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/38931 page(s): 72, figures 1A-F; 3A; 4A-C; note: Haga Haga, Eastern Cape, South Africa [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SAMC A089060, geounit Eastern Cape Province [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Authors: " 'Strandloper’ is the Afrikaans and Dutch word that originally referred to the indigenous shore dwelling, hunter gathering, people who occurred on the western coast of South Africa. More recently it has been informally adopted by ‘beach bums’, people attracted to the beach lifestyle" The authors have latinized 'strandloper' as a female plural genitive (-arum). [details]
Identification Prior museum material was identified (unpublished ?) by J. H. Day as Orthocirratulus chrysoderma. [details]
Type locality Haga Haga abalone farm, E Cape, South Africa, -32.7517, 28.2783 (the geolocation as given for the type, 34°44’ S, 28°14’ E, is a location offshore, and is incorrect by two degrees of latitude) [details]
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