Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Hessle, Christian. (1917). Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. <em>Zoologiska bidrag från Uppsala.</em> 5: 39-258, plates I-V., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38891407 page(s): 209-210, text-figs. 60a-c [details]
additional source
Londoño-Mesa, Mario H. (2003). Revision of <i>Spinosphaera</i> and establishment of the new genus <i>Hutchingsiella</i> (Polychaeta: Terebellidae: Terebellinae). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.</em> 83(4): 747-759., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315403007744h page(s): 748-750 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Hilbig, Brigitte 2000. Family Terebellidae Grube, 1851. pages 231-294. IN: Blake, James A.; Hilbig, Brigitte; and Scott, Paul Valentich. Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. 7 - The Annelida Part 4. Polychaeta: Fabelligeridae to Sternaspidae. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Santa Barbara [details]
Holotype ZMUU 175, geounit Uraga Channel [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 135 m. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Japan (Honshu Island). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet pacifica refers probably to the Pacific Ocean, wher the type locality of the species is located. [details]
Habitat Occurs at shelf depths. Type of sediment not specified. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the Zoologiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden (ZMUU 175). The holotype was described by Londoño-Mesa (2003: 749) as being in bad condition and lacking the anterior and posterior ends, being impossible to recognize many diagnostic structures. [details]
Type locality Probably Uraga Channel, near Yokosuka (Miura Peninsula), Honshu Island, Japan, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 35.18°, 139.76°), 135 m. The type locality was originally referred by Hessle (1917: 210) as ''Japan, Sagami Yokuskastrasse 135 m.'' Probably ''Yokuskastrasse'' refers to the strait or channel leading to the city of Yokosuka (Miura Peninsula), in the ancient Sagami Province (now part of the Kanagawa Prefecture). Yokosuka is located near the southern end of Tokyo Bay and near Uraga Channel, the waterway connecting Tokyo Bay with Sagami Gulf. As Tokyo Bay is very shallow, barely exceeding 50 m depth, and Uraga Channel is a much deeper and steep region leading to the mouth of Tokyo Canyon, the type material, from 135 m depth, was probably collected at the upper region of Uraga Channel. [details]
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