Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 118-119, plate 18 figs. a-c [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
basis of record
BIOCEAN, available online at http://www.ifremer.fr/biocean/ [details]
new combination reference
Gillet, P. (2001). <i>Flabelligena amoureuxi</i> new genus, new species (Polychaeta: Acrocirridae) from Crozet Islands (Indian Ocean). <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 68(1): 125-131., available online at http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2001/00000068/00000001/art00012 page(s): 127, 129-130, fig. 3B, table 2 [details]
Holotype LACM AHF, geounit New England (USA) [details]
Nontype LACM AHF, geounit New England (USA) [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 466-530 m. [details]
Distribution Atlantic Ocean: off New England (USA). [details]
Etymology Not stated in the original description. The specific epithet cirrata (masculine: cirratus) is a Latin adjective meaning 'having cirri', and refers presumably to the presence of cirri in the first segment of the species: "A pair of long, cirriform appendages [...] is inserted between the peristomium and the first setigerous segment, in line with the parapodia; they extend distally beyond the prostomium and are easily lost, as shown by most specimens which retain only their scars of attachment. [...] The first segment has a pair of cirriform appendages, which is unknown for any other flabelligerid [...]" (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971: 118-119). [details]
Habitat Type of sediment not stated, at slope depths. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, USA. [details]
Type locality Off New England, USA, Atlantic Ocean (39.9433°, -71.06°). [details]
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