Polychaeta name details
original description
Monro, C.C.A. (1939). On some tropical Polychaeta in the British Museum, mostly collected by Dr. C. Crossland at Zanzibar, Tahiti and the Marquesas. II. Families Syllidae and Hesionidae. <em>Novitates Zoologicae, London.</em> 41: 383-393., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34053626#page/429/mode/1up page(s): 387-389, text-fig. 299 [details]
new combination reference
San Martín, Guillermo; Aguado, María Teresa; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia. 2014. Revision of the genus Megasyllis (Annelida, Syllidae) with descriptions of four new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 94(02): 331-351 page(s): 343, figs. 8-9 [details]
Syntype NHMUK 1932.7.8.17-27, geounit Marquesas [details]
Syntype NHMUK 1941.4.4.1, geounit Tahiti [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Shore depths. [details]
Distribution South Pacific Ocean: Marquesas Islands and Tahiti. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet marquesensis refers to one of the localities where the syntypes were collected, the Marquesas Islands. [details]
Habitat Among seaweeds and under stones on shore, at shallow water. [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Marquesas Islands (Nuku Hiva Island, Tai o Hae (= Taioha'e), geocoordinates not provided but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -8.924º, long. -140.101º), and Tahiti (Fautaua Reef, geocoordinates not provided, toponym not found, estimated to be approximately at lat. -17.520º, long. -149.559º). [details]
Type material Syntypes NHM 1932.7.8.17-27 and NHM 1941.4.4.1 deposited at the Natural History Museum, London. [details]
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