Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1982). Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-antiborealen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Cervantes im Norden und Cape Naturaliste im Süden). Teil 8. IN: Gesa Hartmann-Schröder and Gerd Hartmann. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 79: 51-118. page(s): 75, figs. 69-72 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-16772, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal to about 24 m depth. [details]
Distribution Australia: New South Wales and Western Australia. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet aristata refers to the presence of long aristae emerging subdistally from below the secondary tooth of simple and composed chaetae. [details]
Habitat Amongst Posidonia meadows and algae, and in dead corals, at shallow water. [details]
Type locality Australia, Western Australia, Rockingham, Point Leron, sheltered northern beach (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -32.272º, long. 115.7º). [details]
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