Polychaeta name details
original description
Moore, J. Percy. (1909). Polychaetous annelids from Monterey Bay and San Diego, California. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 61: 235-295, plates VII-IX., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26288296 page(s): 278-279, plate IX fig. 56 [details]
Holotype CAS 019720, geounit San Diego [details]
Paratype CAS 019719, geounit San Diego [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Low water. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: San Diego (California). [details]
Etymology Not stated by the author, uncertain. The specific epithet gordiodes may be derived from the genus of very long and very thin horsehair worms Gordius Linnaeus, 1758 (Nematomorpha), presumably referring to the general habitus of the species, described as being "an elongated and slender species" (Moore, 1909: 278). [details]
Habitat Probably in intertidal to low water sandy sediments. [details]
Taxonomy Moved to different genus. [details]
Type locality San Diego, California, USA, Pacific Ocean (gazetteer estimate 32.542°, -117.126°), low water. According to Moore (1909: 235), "The localities at which the collections were made are limited to two, namely [...] San Diego, chiefly on a sand-bar in the bay, near the southern boundary of California, where Prof. E. C. Starks collected during 1902 and 1903. At both places the collecting was nearly limited to the littoral zone between tide limits, though a few dredgings were also made." [details]
Type material California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. [details]
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