Polychaeta name details
original description
Treadwell, Aaron Louis. (1943). Polychaetous annelids from Africa in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1221: 1-6., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/4741 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy
Hartman, Olga. (1956). Polychaetous annelids erected by Treadwell, 1891 to 1948, together with a brief chronology. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 109(2): 239-310., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1145 [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription
Parapar, Julio; Lavesque, Nicolas; Gouillieux, Benoit; Moreira, Juan. (2026). A new species of Polyophthalmus from NW Africa and re-establishment of P. papillatus Treadwell, 1943 (Annelida: Opheliidae) based upon type material. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5802(1): 101-118., available online at https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5802.1.5 page(s): 3 of 18, figures 1-3; note: revalidation from synonymy with Polyophthalmus pictus [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AMNH AMNH_NL3236, geounit Angolan [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Holotype AMNH_NL3236, Lobito, western Africa, -12.3332 S, 13.5667 E (12º 19’ 59.65’’ S, 13º 34’ 0.26’’ E), depth not stated but geolocation seems to be intertidal or shore shallows [details]
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