WoRMS name details
original description
Imajima, Minoru. (1966). The Syllidae (Polychaetous Annelids) from Japan. V. Syllinae (2). <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 14(4): 253-294., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2433/175446 page(s): 282-284, fig. 61a-n [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 [details]
new combination reference
San Martín, Guillermo; Álvarez-Campos, Patricia; Hutchings, Pat. (2017). The genus Syllis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 (Annelida: Syllidae: Syllinae) from Australia (second part): four new species and re-description of twelve previously described species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4237(2): 201–243., available online at http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4237.2.1 page(s): 216, fig. 8 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Southern Japan. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet lunaris (Latin word for 'of' or 'pertaining to the moon'), makes reference to the middorsal, transversely oval white spots on the dorsum of the species. [details]
Habitat Intertidal zone, among algae on rocky shores. [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Japan, Honshu, Seto (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 33.692022º, long. 135.337678º). [details]
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