Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, G. (1959). Zur Ökologie der Polychaeten des Mangrove‐Estero‐Gebietes von El Salvador. <em>Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna.</em> 1(2): 69-183., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01650525909380612 page(s): 121-123, figs. 67-69 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Recorded from a dry sandbank, probably supralittoral to upper eulittoral. [details]
Distribution East Pacific Ocean: El Salvador (Estero Jiquilisco, Isla Pajarita). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet spirocirrata is composed by the Latin prefix with Greek origin spiro, meaning 'coil', and the Latin word cirrata, meaning 'fringed', and refers to the coiled long dorsal cirri present in the type material of the species. [details]
Habitat Supra to upper eulittoral sand (salinity 31.4-28.7‰; temperature 26-29ºC). [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, El Salvador, Estero Jiquilisco, Isla Pajarita (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer and accompanying map to be approximately lat. 13.2047º, long. -88.4696º). [details]
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