Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1981). Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Kusten unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-subtropischen Westkuste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes im Suden). <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 78: 19-96. page(s): 21-22, figs. 7-10 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMH P-16472, geounit Western Australia (state) [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Australia: Western Australia (Drummond Cove, Geraldton). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet lanceolata is a Latin adjective meaning 'having the form of a lance or of a spear', and refers presumably to the shape of the dorsal cirri, which is described as being lanceolate: "Dorsalcirren überall deutlich bis viel länger als breit, lanzettförmig" (Hartmann-Schröder, 1981: 22). [details]
Habitat On intertidal rhizoids and thalli of tufted brown algae. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the Zoologische Museum, Hamburg (HZM P-16472). [details]
Type locality Drummond Cove, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia (gazetteer estimate -28.672°, 114.611°). [details]
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