WoRMS name details
original description
Treadwell, Aaron L. (1928). Polychaetous annelids from the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition. <em>Zoologica, New York.</em> 8(8): 449-485., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51020852 page(s): 478-479, fig. 179: 54 to 57 [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 page(s): 258, 291; note: as Nerine cirratulus hirsuta (Treadwell, 1928) [details] Available for editors [request]
status source
Maciolek, Nancy J. 1990. A redescription of some species belonging to the genus <i>Spio</i> and <i>Microspio</i> (Polychaeta: Annelida) and descriptions of three new species from Northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Natural History, 24: 1109-1141., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770701 page(s): 1112; note: as Scolelepis squamata (Müller, 1806) [details]
Holotype AMNH 3555, geounit Cocos Islands [details]
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Depth range Not stated. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Cocos Island (west of Costa Rica). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet hirsuta is a Latin adjective meaning 'hairy' or 'bristly', and refers presumably to the presence of long notochaetae standing at all sorts of angles from the body axis: "Behind somite forty the appearance [of the body] is more irregular. This effect is in part produced by the tufts of long white notopodial setae, which first appear at about somite forty-five and (in preserved material) stand at all sorts of angles with the body axis" (Treadwell, 1928: 478). [details]
Habitat Not stated. [details]
Holotype Deposited at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (AMNH 3555). [details]
Type locality Cocos Island, west of Costa Rica, Pacific Ocean (5.5333°, -86.9833°). According to the IZ Type Specimens Database of the AMNH, the holotype was collected at Chatham Bay, Cocos Island (gazetteer estimate 5.55°, -87.04°). [details]From other sources
Taxonomy Status changed [details]
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