Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Rullier, François. (1972). Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie recueillies par Y. Plessis et B. Salvat. <em>Expédition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.</em> 6: 6-169. page(s): 70-72, fig. 11 [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf page(s): 182-183 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype UCO ZA Y16, geounit New Caledonia [details]
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Depth range Shallow water. [details]
Distribution New Caledonia. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet bicolor refers to the color pattern of the species, being white with irregular black segments, in series of 1, 2, or 3 consecutive segments. [details]
Habitat Inside corals (Rullier, 1972: 21). [details]
Taxonomy The species was considered as an Autolytinae incertae sedis by Nygren (2004: 182-183), due to the poor condition of the holotype. According to the same author "Autolytus bicolor may belong within Procerini. However, many of the characters are unknown which make a 'generic' allocation difficult. The only other Procerini with nuchal epaulettes reaching end of chaetiger 3 is Paraproceraea tamana, but P. tamana is orange, and lacks the black colour markings of A. bicolor" (Nygren, 2004: 183). [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, New Caledonia, Baie de Saint-Vincent, Îlot Ronhua (= Petit Ténia) (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -22.063º, long. 166.024º). [details]
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