Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. (2023). Revision of <em>Chloeia</em> Savigny <em>in</em> Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida, Amphinomidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5238(1): 1-134., available online at https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5238.1.1 page(s): 95, figure 44; note: Holotype MNHN IA-TYPE 2053, in deep-sea trap, South of Fangatufa Island, French Polynesia, -22.3 S, -138.7667 W (22°18´ S, 138°46´ W), 860 m, J. Poupin, coll. [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype MNHN IA-TYPE 2053, geounit French Polynesian part of the South Pacific Ocean [details]
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Description Live pigmentation unknown, but probably more intense pigmentation than in the preserved holotype where a middorsal reddish band was present along chaetigers 4–9, with dorsal cirri and branchiae pale, and the caruncle was darker than the body wall. [details]
Distribution Known only from a single specimen from deep water off Fangatufa Island, French Polynesia [details]
Etymology Chloeia poupini is named after Dr. Joseph Poupin who collected the holotype from a deep-sea trap. Noun masculine genitive in apposition [details]
Type locality Holotype MNHN IA-TYPE 2053, in deep-sea trap, South of Fangatufa Island, French Polynesia, -22.3 S, -138.7667 W (22°18´ S, 138°46´ W), 860 m, J. Poupin, coll. [details]
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