Polychaeta name details
original description
Ben-Eliahu, M. Nechama. (1977). Polychaete cryptofauna from rims of similar intertidal vermetid reefs on the Mediterranean coast of Israel and in the Gulf of Elat: Syllinae and Eusyllinae (Polychaeta Errantia: Syllidae). Israel Journal of Zoology. 26: 1-58., available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00212210.1977.10688440#.VE_LcjTF_Ss page(s): 25-26, fig. 8a-f [details]
source of synonymy
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): 177-178, figs. 17H, 79; note: as Typosyllis lutea [details]
Holotype BMNH 1976.539, geounit Gulf of Aqaba [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Gulf of Aqaba. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet lunaroides makes reference to the similarity of the species with Syllis lunaris Imajima, 1966. [details]
Habitat Low-midlittoral vermetid reefs of Dendropoma cf. meroclista Hadfield & Kay, 1972 on wave-battered beachrock slabs. [details]
Type locality Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba, Egypt, South Sinai, northern flank of the Wadi Kabila alluvial fan (latitude given by Ben-Eliahu & Safriel (1982) as 28º16'00"N, longitude estimated with gazetteer to be 34º24'35"E). [details]
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