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Polychaeta taxon detailsTravisia brevis Moore, 1923
332630 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:332630)
accepted
Species
marine,
recent only
Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425
page(s): 220-221; note: no figures [details]
Holotype Unknown, geounit San Diego Bay
Holotype Unknown, geounit San Diego Bay [details]
Type locality Off San Diego, California. The holotype is from off Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego, but no geolocation numerics are reported. Point Loma itself is at 32.6639 N, -117.2464 W. "Stations 4322, off Point La Jolla, 110 fathoms, green mud and shells; 4332, off Point Loma Lighthouse, 62-183 fathoms, gray sand, (type); 4550, off Point Pinos Lighthouse, 50-57 fathoms, green mud." [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Travisia brevis Moore, 1923. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=332630 on 2026-04-10
Date action by
original description
Moore, J. Percy. (1923). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. ''Albatross'' off the coast of southern California in 1904. IV. Spionidae to Sabellariidae. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 75: 179-259, plates XVII-XVIII., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12425
page(s): 220-221; note: no figures [details] taxonomy source Tovar-Hernández, María Ana; Burgess, Dany E.; León-González, Jesús Angel De; Hendrickx, Michel E. (2025). Travisiid worms from deep water off Western Mexico with the establishment of a new species (Annelida: Travisiidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5729(2): 349-369., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5729.2.7 page(s): 351, figures 1-3; note: Synonymy (only ever in Travisia genus), text description and multiple colour photographs of specimens identified as Travisia brevis Moore, 1923 collected from off Guerrero, Mexican Pacific [details] Available for editors  [request]context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] additional source Imajima, Minoru 1964. Benthic polychaetes collected by the second cruise of the Japanese Expedition of Deep Seas (JEDS-2). Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 7(3): 235-254. page(s): 247 [details] redescription Blake, J.A. 2000. Family Opheliidae Malmgren, 1867. pages 145-168. 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]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype Unknown, geounit San Diego Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Off San Diego, California. The holotype is from off Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego, but no geolocation numerics are reported. Point Loma itself is at 32.6639 N, -117.2464 W. "Stations 4322, off Point La Jolla, 110 fathoms, green mud and shells; 4332, off Point Loma Lighthouse, 62-183 fathoms, gray sand, (type); 4550, off Point Pinos Lighthouse, 50-57 fathoms, green mud."[details] Unreviewed
Specimen Smithsonian Institution, Washington (USNM); Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Travisia brevis) To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 9 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (5 records) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (Holotype USNM 17439) To ITIS |
