Polychaeta name details
original description
Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa. (1990). Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. IN: Hartmann-Schröder, Gesa; Hartmann, Gerd. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Teil 15. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut.</em> 87: 41-87. page(s): 57-58, figs. 27-29 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Nygren, Arne. (2004). Revision of Autolytinae (Syllidae: Polychaeta). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 680: 1-314., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00680f.pdf page(s): 87-88, fig. 36A-F [details] Available for editors [request]
Holotype ZMH P-19970, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Australia: Queensland (Redcliffe Point, north of Brisbane). [details]
Etymology The specific epithet cirrata is the feminine of the Latin adjective cirratus, meaning 'having cirri', and seems to refer to the presence of cylindrical dorsal cirri with alternating lengths. [details]
Habitat Eulittoral algal beds with sand and clay. [details]
Type locality Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, gravel beach in front of Redcliffe Point, north of the city (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -27.216º, long. 153.117º), algal beds with sand and clay, eulittoral. [details]
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