Polychaeta name details
original description
Licher, Frank 2000 (1999), Revision der Gattung Typosyllis Langerhans, 1879 (Polychaeta: Syllidae). Morphologie, Taxonomie und Phylogenie. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 551:1-336 page(s): 78-81, figs. 17U, 35-36 [details]
source of synonymy
Del-Pilar-Ruso, Y. & G. San Martín. 2012. Description of a new species of <i>Sphaerosyllis</i> from the Alicante coast (W Mediterranean) and first reports of two other species of Syllidae for the Mediterranean Sea and the Iberian Peninsula. <i>Mediterranean Marine Science</i>, 13 (2): 187-197. page(s): 192 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Eulittoral. [details]
Distribution Mauritania, Banc d'Arguin. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet mauretanica refers to the type locality of the species, Mauritania. [details]
Habitat AEulittoral, among seagrasses. [details]
Type locality Mauritania (marine), Banc d' Arguin, about 100 km south of the city of Nouadhibou (geocoordinates not provided, but estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 19.867005º, long. -16.317042º). [details]
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