Polychaeta name details
original description
Winterbourn, Michael J. (1969). A freshwater nereid polychaete from New Zealand. <em>New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 3(2): 281-285., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1969.9515296 page(s): 282-284, figs. 1-7 [details] Available for editors [request]
new combination reference
Glasby, C.J. (1999). The Namanereidinae (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Part 1. Taxonomy and phylogeny. <em>Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement.</em> 25: 1-129., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0812-7387.25.1999.1354 page(s): p 112 with notes p 112-114, figs. 1c, 42, 50a-g, table 5 [details]
Holotype NMNZ Z.W. 1015, geounit North Island [details]
From editor or global species database
Altitude 76 m above sea level. [details]
Distribution New Zealand: Turitea Stream (SE Palmerston North, North Island). [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated, but the specific epithet tiriteae refers to the type locality of the species, Tiritea (=Turitea) Stream, New Zealand. [details]
Habitat In a section of a freshwater stream 6 m wide with a bed of large stones (diameter >30 cm) embedded in smaller gravel and mud, with silting in places, and stretches of dead water overlying silt and mud, 76 m above the sea level. [details]
Type locality Tiritea (=Turitea) Stream (freshwater), 6.4 km from the confluence of the stream with the Manawatu River and 74 km fom the sea following the course of the river, SE Palmerston North, North Island, New Zealand (gazetteer estimate -40.3978°, 175.6435°). [details]
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