Polychaeta name 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): 39-40, figs. 77-79 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
San Martín, Guillermo. (2005). Exogoninae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and twenty-two new species. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 57(1): 39-152., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.57.2005.1438 page(s): 147; note: synonymy to Exogone (Sylline) fustifera Haswell, 1920 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMH P-16491, geounit Australia [details]
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Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Australia: Western Australia (Geraldton). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet spinisetosa may refer to the thin spinelike blade of the composed chaetae, or to the presence of 4 different spines at the tips of the shafts of the composed chaetae. [details]
Habitat Amongst algae on eulittoral erosion terrace. [details]
Type locality Australia, Western Australia, Geraldton, mouth of Greenough River, erosion terrace in front of Cape Burney (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -28.856º, long. 114.628º). [details]
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