Polychaeta name details
Holotype BMNH 1997.1076, geounit Gulf of Aqaba [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range Intertidal. [details]
Distribution Red Sea, Gulf of Aqaba. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet bifidentata refers to the short bifid teeth that alternate with the 9 longer denticles. In reality they are two short teeth fused for 1/2 their length (Nygren, 2004). [details]
Habitat Low-midlittoral vermetid reefs of Dendropoma cf. meroclista Hadfield & Kay, 1972 on wave-battered beachrock slabs. [details]
Nomenclature Corrected spelling, from Procera to Proceraea. [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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