Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1990). Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa; Hartmann, Gerd. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil 15. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 87: 41-87. page(s): 56-57, figs. 24-26 [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-19967, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W203314, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype WAM 49-89, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype ZMH P-19968, geounit Australia [details]
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Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Australia: New South Wales (Angourie Point, south Yamba, near Maclean). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet brevifalcigera is composed by the Latin prefix brevi-, meaning 'short', and the Latin adjective falcigera, feminine of falciger and meaning 'sickle-bearing', and seems to make reference to the very short falcigers of the species. [details]
Habitat Amongst algae in intertidal rocky pools. [details]
Type locality Australia, New South Wales, Maclean, Angourie Point, south Yamba (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 29º29'S, long. 153º22'E), amongst algae on rocky pools, eulittoral. [details]
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