Polychaeta name details
original description
Buzhinskaja, Galina N. 1990. Polychaetes off the coast of Jankich Island (Ushishir Islands, Kuril Islands). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademiia Nauk SSSR, 218: 18-35. page(s): 25-27, fig. 4 [details]
new combination reference
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): 280 [details]
Holotype ZI 1/47543, geounit Kurile Islands [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 5 m. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean, Kurile Archipelago: Yankicha, Ushishir Island. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet cratericola is composed by the Latin word of Greek origin crater, for 'volcanic crater', followed by the suffix of Latin origin -cola, meaning 'inhabitant', denoting 'inhabitant of the crater' and making reference to the type locality of the species, the volcanic crater of the Islet Yankicha, in Ushishir Island (Kurile Archipelago). [details]
Habitat Muddy gravel in shallow water. [details]
Type locality Pacific Ocean, Kurile Archipelago, Ushishir Island, Yankicha, Kraternaya Bight (or Katernaya Bay) (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. 47.514º, long. 152.813º). [details]
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