WoRMS taxon details
original description
Quatrefages, A. de. (1866 (1865)). Histoire naturelle des Annelés marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et Géphyriens. <em>Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret. Paris.</em> <b>Volume 1.</b> 1-588., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=FV9IAAAAYAAJ page(s): 521; note: Iles moluques (Malukus Islands, central point -2.8780, 129.1291), collected by quoy [details]
additional source
Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628. note: checklist listing [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Evidently named for one of the collectors (Quoy & Gaimard). Jean René Constant Quoy was a ship's doctor naturalist, notably on the Astrolabe expedition.
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Type locality Iles moluques (Malukus Islands, central point -2.8780, 129.1291), collected by Quoy et Gaimard [details]
Type material Solis-Weiss et al (2004) did not find type specimens at the Paris museum [details]
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