Polychaeta taxon 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): 48-49, figs. 106-114, table 1 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype ZMH P-16495, geounit Western Australia (state) [details]
Paratype ZMH P-16496, geounit Western Australia (state) [details]
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Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Indian Ocean: Drummond Cove (Western Australia, Australia). [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated, but the specific epithet australiensis refers to the type locality of the species, Australia. [details]
Habitat Amongst rhizoids and thalli of tuft-like brown algae, and in fine sand between rhizoids and leaves of seagrasses, from intertidal to shallow water. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the Zoologische Museum, Hamburg, Germany (ZMH P-16495). [details]
Type locality Drummond Cove, Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia, Indian Ocean (gazetteer estimate -28.674°, 114.611°). [details]
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